Bhujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati flayed the Shivraj Singh Chauhan government in Madhya Pradesh for atrocities against farmers and the killing of six farmers in police firing in Mandsaur on Wednesday.
"My party condemns the act of the MP government and we fully support the farmers demand. The BSP unit of MP was keeeping a close tan on the situation in Mandsaur and other places," asserted Mayawati in a press release issued in lucknow on Thursday.
The BSP chief charged the BJP government at the Centre and the states of trying to crush farmers stir for genuine demnds which led to a tregdy like Mandsaur.
"The farmers in the country are facing severe hardships and they are under the huge burden of loans. It should be the Union government's priority to waive off farm loans immediately," she demanded.
Alleging that the Modi government at the Centre was promoting big industrial houses while all promises to end farmers' woes have taken backseat, Mayawai said that due to Opposition pressure, the NDA government could not amend land Acquisition law in favour of Modi's industrialist friends.
Expressing grief over killing of innocent unarmed farmers in Mandsaur, the BSP chief alleged that governments in various BJP-ruled states have adopted oppressive measures against the poor, labourers, farmers and other sections.
"Farmers in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana have been protesting as they want fair price for their produce. But the administration in these BJP-ruled states opened fire and caned them," Mayawati alleged.
Meanwhile, the UP Congress also criticised the killing of innocent farmers and burnt the effigy of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister in lukcnow on Thursday. leaders and workers of City and District Congress units collected outside the UPCC office at Mall Avenue and raised slogans against the BJP governments at the Centre and in UP before torching an effigy of Shivraj Singh Chauhan to vent their ire. Heavy police force present there prevented the party workers from moving further.