With his ‘Deoria se dilli kisan yatra’ is just two days away from completion, Rahul Gandhi raised strong voice in support of cane growers. He attacked the successive State Governments as well as the Centre for ignoring the interest of the farmers and working for welfare of mill owners or for top 10 industrialists of the country.
“In UP, Government had sold sugar mills, and the Prime Minister is making false claims that all the dues of the cane growers have been met. PM should stop lying and ensure payment to farmers. I will raise your voice in the Parliament and force Modi to listen to it”, asserted Rahul Gandhi while interacting with farmers during Khat Sabha in Shamli and later during road show in Muzaffarnagar and Saharanpur on Tuesday.
Stressing the plight of cane growers at Baghra in Muzaffarnagar, Rahul said that both Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav Government had ended small crushers just to create monopoly of the sugar mill owners and now they were exploiting the poor cane growers of the state particularly in West UP region. “Mayawati had sold sugar mills and now Samajwadi Party government is working in the interest of mill owners”, alleged Rahul while saying that decision of successive Government had hit the care growers of UP.