New Delhi: Asking his party workers to start
mobilising people at the grassroot level for garnering support
for creation of a separate Harit Pradesh, RLD chief Ajit Singh
on Tuesday said youth will have to be made aware about this.
"The Centre relaxed its stand after TRS chief K
Chandrasekhar Rao went on fast over Telangana. This has given
hope to our old demand of a separate Harit Pradesh out of
western Uttar Pradesh. We all will have to mobilise popular
opinion among the people of the region and especially the
youth for the issue. The young generation will have to be made
aware about this," Singh said while addressing a meeting of
his party workers and farmers here.
He said the Telangana agitation has gone out of the hands
of its leaders and now the common man, be it businessmen,
students and even government officials are demanding it and
fighting for it on the streets of Hyderabad.
"I went to Bundelkhand and Vidarbha recently and saw a
consensus building there for smaller states. It is, therefore,
time that we should also mobilise public opinion on Harit
Pradesh, as people are not happy with Mayawati's rule in UP,"
he added.
Singh said apart from price rise and scrapping of the
Land Acquisition Bill, he would also pressurise the government
on creation of Harit Pradesh in coming days.
"I am in the process of meeting various Opposition
parties leaders on these issues and will definitely build a
consensus on these," he said.
PTI
First Published: Tuesday, February 09, 2010, 17:31