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BKU launches stir to oust govt
DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS became the launch pad for the Bharatiya Kisan Union to launch its statewide agitation to dislodge the SP-led State government.
DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS became the launch pad for the Bharatiya Kisan Union to launch its statewide agitation to dislodge the SP-led State government.
Raising its war cry against the State government, BKU spokesperson Rakesh Singh Tikait said the State government had cheated the farmers. He also criticised Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) leader Chaudhary Ajit Singh for forgetting the ideology of Charan Singh.
Delivering his views in an impressive Kisan Mahapanchayat on the district collectorate premises, Tikait said no national agriculture policy had been formulated so far and the UPA government was ignoring the farmers who were the backbone of our democracy.
He recalled former prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh’s statement that prosperity of India was in the prosperity of its villagers. Today, villages and villagers had been left at the God’s mercy by the Central and the State governments.
Continuing his offensive against Centre, Tikait said the government was pampering industrialists and providing them loan on 4 per cent interest, while hesitating to provide loan to farmers. He alleged that farmer were committing suicide due to faulty economic policies and World Trade Organisation regime.
BKU leaders handed over a memorandum to the district magistrate to be forwarded to the President of India. Tilait criticised the Union government for enhancing the prices of petroleum products, which had increased the cost of agriculture products.
National general secretary of the party, Rajpal Sharma, accused Mulayam government of cheating farmers even though Mulayam Singh Yadav claimed to be a pupil of Chaudhary Charan Singh.
Divisional coordinator Anoop Singh flayed the government for ignoring BRD Medical College and demanded appointment of teachers and doctors in the college to save the college from being derecognised by the Medical Council of India.
Coordinator of Basti division, Beni Madho Tiwari, Kailash Chaudhary and others said in rural areas there were no teachers in primary schools, no doctors in primary health centers and no electricity in villages. Rural India had been forgotten by the government in a bid to appease the capitalist forces, they said.
