STAY UNITED TO HAVE THE LAST LAUGH, RLD CHIEF TO FARMERS

LUCKNOW : Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief and former union minister Ajit Singh on Monday issued a written appeal to farmers urging them to maintain unity amid their ongoing agitation against the Centre’s three agricultural laws. He said the government got the three farm bills passed in Parliament in a hurry without a due debate and discussion and without taking farmers into confidence. “Now what stops the government from accepting farmers’ demand to withdraw the three laws and bring fresh ones after prior consultations with them?,” he asked.

LUCKNOW : Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief and former union minister Ajit Singh on Monday issued a written appeal to farmers urging them to maintain unity amid their ongoing agitation against the Centre’s three agricultural laws.

He said the government got the three farm bills passed in Parliament in a hurry without a due debate and discussion and without taking farmers into confidence.

“Now what stops the government from accepting farmers’ demand to withdraw the three laws and bring fresh ones after prior consultations with them?,” he asked.

Accusing the government of being “arrogant”, Singh said farmers had been staying put on Delhi borders away from their families and fields for last 47 days in the biting cold and the government, he added, was making only false promises to them.

He said this was the time for the test of farmers’ resolution and appealed to them to keep on sticking to their demands unitedly without resorting to violence.

Cautioning farmers, he said there may come a time when the government may engineer violence through its mischievous elements. He asked them to keep a watch on such elements.

“I believe farmers will prevail in the long run because they are on the path of truth and the truth always finds its way to its destination after some obstacles,” he said.