MP farmers to campaign against 112 MLAs

A farmers’ organisation in Madhya Pradesh has said it will campaign against 112 legislators, who belong to various parties, for their “failure” to take up the issues of cultivators.

Farmers would be asked to evaluate the works done by MLAs for their welfare, and cast votes “tactically” in the state Assembly elections due later this year, Aam Kisan Union leader Kedar Sirohi told PTI.

“We have identified 112 MLAs, who were elected from rural areas but never asked a question on the issues of farmers in the Assembly,” he said.

The strategy is to focus on MLAs whose victory margin was less than 5,000 votes in the last state polls, he said.

Out of the 112 legislators identified by the organisation, 86 are of the BJP, 24 of the Congress and two are Independents, Sirohi said.

“Our (union) leaders will not go to every village of the identified constituencies, but they will visit only 20 villages having sizable farmers’ population in each Assembly segment. We will interact with farmers and talk about their issues to convince them to vote tactically,” he said.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had last month said that his government deposited over Rs 35,000 crore into the accounts of farmers as part of various state-run schemes over the past one year.

Sirohi said their organisation was not against any government or political outfit.