Former Haryana Chief Minister and Indian National Lok Dal supremo OP Chautala on Wednesday said that the ongoing farmers’ agitation will force the Central Government to scrap the “black farm laws”.
Chautala who visited Tikri border to extend his support to the farmers’ agitation said that the protest of the farmers is getting stronger day by day, due to which the government will be forced to repeal all the three agricultural laws. This fight is not only of farmers and laborers but of the whole country and the eyes of the whole world are on the farmers’ movement, he said while addressing the protesting farmers. A day before, the INLD chief had visited Ghazipur and Palwal borders where farmers have been protesting against Centre’s three farm laws.
Chautala, while targeting the BJP government at the Centre and in Haryana said that the BJP is anti-farmer and the government of capitalists.
It has been more than eight months since the farmers’ movement, but the government is not ready to listen to the voice of the farmers. There is a lot of anger among the farmers of the country against the government, he said.
The INLD chief said that all his life former Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal struggled to ensure that farmers, weaker sections and other common people get their due. We want to realise the dreams of the late Chaudhary Devi Lal, he said.
These farm laws should be withdrawn. India is an agriculture-based country and agriculture is the backbone of the Indian economy. The INLD will stand by the farmers and continue to fight for farmers’ rights, he added. Notably, Chautala (86) was released from Delhi’s Tihar jail earlier this month where he was serving a 10-year sentence in a teachers’ recruitment scam. Chautala’s younger son Abhay Chautala, INLD’s lone legislator had resigned from the Haryana Assembly in protest against the farm laws while his grandson and Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala’s JJP is part of the coalition government in Haryana, which supports the laws.