The Rashtriya lok Dal (RlD) took out processions across the state on Monday to press for payment of outstanding cane arrears and 50 per cent bonus on the minimum support price of wheat.
In the state capital, RlD state president Munna Singh Chauhan led the procession which culminated in a dharna in front of Vidhan Bhawan.
Addressing the party workers, Chauhan said the Akhilesh Yadav government was hobnobbing with the sugar mill owners. He said the Samajwadi Party leaders had ditched the farmers to whom they had promised sops during the assembly elections. "Now these very SP leaders are hand in glove with industrialists and are busy preparing for the next lok Sabha election," he added.
later, Chauhan submitted a memorandum of the demands to Governor Bl Joshi.In Meerut, the procession was led party MP Sanjay Singh Chauhan and in Aligarh, by RlD leader in Vidhan Sabha, Thakur Dalbir Singh.