Akhilesh: Farmers ask for fertilizers, get police batons instead
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Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) president
Akhilesh Yadav
on Thursday accused the BJP govt of using police force to silence farmers who are raising their voice against non-availability of fertilizers at govt outlets.
He said in 2017 the BJP promised to double farmers' income once in govt, but the party has failed to live up to its promise and things have come to a pass where the farmers were now being deprived of basic elements like seeds, fertilizers and regular power supply for irrigation of crops.
"At a time when farmers need DAP and urea-based fertilizers, the govt has failed to provide them with it. Crop for the Kharif season in general and paddy in particular has been sown, and it is time to add fertilizers, but govt backed outlets say they don't have the stock.
The BJP govt seems completely insensitive to how important the timing of adding fertilizers is for the farmers to nourish their crop. Delay will take its toll on the quality of crop," Akhilesh said.
He said there was a severe shortage of fertilizers in Gonda, Basti, Hathras, Sitapur, and Lakhimpur Kheri to name a few. "With men at fields, farmers send women folks to stand in queue at the co-operative societies for fertilizers early in the morning.
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These women spend hours at a stretch standing in queues only to be told that the stocks have been exhausted. This leaves the farmers feeling hapless and disgusted. The worst is that when these farmers raise their voice, the govt uses police to silence them," Akhilesh said.
The former UP CM cited the instance reported from co-operative society in Sanker Bhadura area of Lakhimpur Kheri where police cane charged farmers who had gathered to buy fertilizers after the outlet announced that the stock for the day was exhausted.
In a viral video clip of the police action, cops can be seen thrashing an old woman with sticks when she intervened to save her farmer son being beaten and forced into a police vehicle.
"Farmers are being humiliated," Akhilesh said referring to the incident.
He described police action as an example of how the BJP govt was forcefully silencing the farmers. "It is not only about Lakhimpur Kheri. In Hathras several co-operative societies don't have DAP and urea stocks. At many outlets of Gonda, fertilizers are being sold only on papers," he said.
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