It’s time to apply ‘vote ki chot’, says Jayant
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‘Whenever there is a challenge, people unite and give birth to a new movement’
“This government should not try to enforce its whims as we were born obstinate,” stated Rashtriya Lok Dal vice-president Jayant Chaudhary, addressing an enormous kisan panchayat in opposition to farm legal guidelines in Sadabad space of Hathras district on Monday.
He appealed to the farmers to apply “vote ki chot” [cause damage by voting] to educate the BJP a lesson. “After listening to the Prime Minister’s address in Parliament, the farmer is feeling insulted and has become more resolute in his stand against the farm laws,” he stated.
Numerous farmers turned up for the panchayat but once more. “The protests have emerged from the grassroots, but strangely Mr. Modi is keeping his eyes shut to their [farmers’] demands,” Mr. Chaudhary stated.
“Whenever there is a challenge, people unite and give birth to a new leader, a new movement,” he stated.
Mr. Chaudhary reminded how his grandfather Chaudhary Charan Singh had argued in his guide — India’s Economic Policy: The Gandhian Blueprint, revealed in 1978 — that those that had been working the nation didn’t know the social and psychological make-up of the farmers. “People with urban upbringing make laws for rural India. Even if they have the farmers’ interest in mind, they are not practical. This is proving to be true in 2021,” he stated.
‘Benefit of capitalists’
“The Prime Minister said in Parliament that one should not insult the capitalists. This in a country where there is still inequality, where a large section of the electorate is still poor. It shows the PM knows everything. The laws are made for the benefit of his capitalist friends,” stated the RLD chief.
Raising the difficulty of a farmer from Aligarh who not too long ago killed himself, Mr. Chaudhary stated: “They seek vote in the name of Ram, but they are not concerned about Ramjilal who ended his life after facing humiliation at the hands of officials for his inability to pay electricity bill.”
He recalled that the federal government had promised to develop 22,000 Gramin Hats (rural marketplaces). “I could not find one in this region that is known for potato cultivation. The Shanta Kumar Committee had said in 2015 that only 6% of farmers could sell their produce at MSP. The goal should have been to increase procurement by increasing the number of government mandis,” he stated.
Mr. Chaudhary feared that the federal government would promote the Food Corporation of India in addition to it’s working losses. “They are busy selling everything and the farmers will have to suffer,” he stated.
He additionally took the U.P. authorities to process for not growing the State Approved Price of sugarcane for the third consecutive yr.
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