U.P. Assembly elections | Will farm anger swing the fortunes of Baghpat?
The Hindu
The threat of Muslims that has been fanned by BJP leaders in their speeches has waned.
The defaced electoral advertisement of the BJP candidate from Baghpat reveals the still smouldering embers of the farmers’ agitation in the citadel of Chaudhary Charan Singh that his grandson and Rashtriya Lok Dal Chief Jayant Singh is trying to reclaim this election. On Tuesday, the BJP’s Chhaprauli candidate Sahendra Singh’s convoy was once again pelted with cow dung cakes.
“First they made us sit for a year in the open and now the BJP leaders are keen on embracing us. Ab gale lagate phir rahe hain. We can see through the design,” said Veerpal Singh, a farmer in Sadiqpur Sinauli.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said that on the lines of the farmers’ protest that compelled the Centre to withdraw farm laws, a protest would be launched with like-minded political parties and organisations representing the poor to demand repeal of the new Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB-G RAM G) and restoration of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Act (MGNREGA).












