Rahul Gandhi in Jewar: Mayawati ignored plight of farmers

Charging Mayawati for hobnobbing with corporate builders and rich companies to fulfill her greed for money, Congress (I) General Secretary Rahul Gandhi has said she ignored plight of farmers while forcibly acquiring their lands.  For the farmers land was their only source of livelihood which she scornfully ignored, Rahul Gandhi said while addressing public meetings in Ghaziabad and Jewar (Noida) on February 23 for the ongoing Assembly elections. 

Farmers were not informed that their land was being acquired; they came to know of it only when builder’s bulldozer reached the farmers’ fields, he further said. When Rahul Gandhi challenged this unjust policy, Mayawati overnight changed land acquisition policy. Now she is opposing new Land Acquisition Bill in the Parliament to harm the farmers.

Again while Congress (I) led UPA government has made provision of fertiliser subsidy for farmers, Mayawati has not made that available to the farmers. Similarly while highbred seeds have not been provided to the farmers to increase agricultural yield, Mayawati has sold state owned sugar mills thus putting the farmers at the mercy of private sugar mill owners.

Highlighting that the only way to come out of this bad situation was to put Congress (I) in driver’s seat in Lucknow, Rahul Gandhi fervently appealed to the people to vote for Congress (I) to make this possible.  He assured that his party would provide responsible government which would follow pro-farmer policy.

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