'Crushing Farmers, Stifling Opposition Voices BJP's New Strategy?' Asks Sena's Sanjay Raut
NDTV
PM Modi speaks about farmers' interests, while state governments headed by the BJP "kill farmers" by running them over with cars, Sena's Sanjay Raut claimed.
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut today wondered if crushing farmers and stifling the voices of opposition leaders who stand in their support are BJP's new strategy, a day after eight people were killed in violence that erupted during a farmers' protest in UP's Lakhimpur Kheri.
Talking to reporters, Sanjay Raut said when the BJP protested over the rape in Mumbai's Saki Naka, "we (the state government) did not stop anyone from going to the crime site".
"Farmers have been run over allegedly by the car of a minister's son (in Lakhimpur Kheri). Where does such cruelty come from?" asked the Rajya Sabha member, whose party shares power with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress in Maharashtra.
He said Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and other leaders were stopped when they were on their way to Lakhimpur Kheri to show solidarity with the farmers protesting over their demand to repeal the Centre's three agri-marketing laws.
