The Samajwadi Party has announced to stage a protest in support of the ongoing farmers’ agitation on Monday.
The SP also attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Central government for linking the farmers’ protest to “Naxalite and anti-national elements”.
SP spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary in a statement here on Sunday said, “The farmers of the country are on a continuous strike for their legitimate demands from the government in the chilly winter, but the government wants to suppress the farmers’ movement. We are aware that the DNA of Savarkar and Godse is in the DNA of the so-called nationalist government which is seeing Naxalites and Anti-Nationals among the farmers.”
He said that Samajwadi Party president and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav had instructed party leaders and workers to stage protests at the district headquarters in a non-violent manner on Monday in support of the agitating farmers.
“Akhilesh Yadav has decided that our protest, in support of the farmers, will continue from village to village, no matter how much the government wants us to frame in cases, send us to jail or beat us to suppress the movement. But we are not going to back off even one step. Until then, the Samajwadi Party will continue to oppose all three black laws,” Chaudhary said.
Earlier, Akhilesh Yadav asked the BJP government to stop “atrocities” against farmers and withdraw the three agriculture laws brought in for “looting farmers”.
In a press release issued by the party headquarters here, Yadav said the farmers of the country had understood that the BJP government was adopting different tactics “to snatch their land and harvest”.
