Politics over sugar crisis intensifies as parties blame each other for the ongoing impasse between private sugar millers and State Government over cane price though farmers have started staging protest demanding mills should start operation.
The Samajwadi Party, which is in the eye of storm has blamed Congress-led UPA Government for the present crisis. SP spokesperson and UP Jail Minister Rajendra Chaudhury said that the anti-farmer attitude of the Congress was the main reason for the present crisis in the State.
‘’Centre has refused to provide rebate to the sugar mills and it has created a deadlock. No private mill is now ready to start crushing,’’ Chaudhury said in a statement issued here on Friday.
The Minister claimed that UP Government has provided all the sops it can give to the sugar mills. “We cannot give anything more than this. Rebates on purchase tax and molasses have been given to them. The mills should now start crushing by first week of December,” he said.