No ‘ghar wapsi’ for farmers till laws are repealed: Jayant
Defying the administrative ban on holding a large gathering, the leaders of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) held a ‘kisan panchayat’ in Sampurnanagar on Thursday.
RLD national vice president Jayant Chaudhary attended the panchayat and addressed hundreds of farmers.
Ravi Verma, national general secretary of Samajwadi Party and former Kheri MP and Congress leader Saif Ali Naqvi also shared the stage. Chaudhary made scathing attacks on Narendra Modi government in the Centre and the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh.
Jayant said the ruling party leaders were making a mockery of the farmers’ agitation with no sympathy to their rightful demands. The farmers were being called ‘andolanjeevi’ which indicated the insensitive approach of the government towards farmers. Jayant warned that farmers’ agitation was the first grassroot movement of the farmers which is above caste and creed and any attempt to divide the farmers would prove futile. Chaudhary said, “If government felt the farmers would retreat during summers or
THE RULING PARTY LEADERS ARE MAKING A MOCKERY OF THE FARMERS’ AGITATION WITH NO SYMPATHY TO THEIR RIGHTFUL DEMANDS.
wheat harvesting season, it is mistaken.” “There will be no ‘ghar wapsi’ for farmers till the three anti-farmers’ laws were repealed,” he added.
Chaudhary said when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat in 2011, he had written a letter to then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding a law to guarantee minimum support price (MSP) to the farmers. “Now, when Modi is the PM, he has no intention to fulfill his own old demand,” Jayant said.
RLD leader said, “Around three and a half year back, Yogi government had formed a Kisan Samriddhi Ayog but not even a single meeting of the Ayog had taken place so far.”