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Farmers hold rally violating prohibitory orders in UP
Muzaffarnagar, Feb 01: Violating prohibitory orders, a large number of farmers today held a rally here demanding higher support price for sugarcane and release of all peasants detained during recent agitations by February 7 failing which they warned of an stir throughout Uttar Pradesh.
He warned if this was not done then demonstrations and sit-ins would be staged throughout the state. Tikait also demanded a new agriculture policy in which support price of the crop was fixed prior to the harvest season and the subsidies provided directly to the farmers.
The BKU leader accused the Mayawati Government of doing nothing for the sugarcane farmers whose crops had been badly hit in the drought and whose crores of rupees as arrears had not been paid by the sugar mill owners. He said there was no option but to take recourse of agitation since atrocities on farmers continued unabated.
Lok Dal (Ajit Singh faction) Mla Rajpal Baliyan, announced at the rally he was quitting the assembly to protest atrocities on sugarcane farmers and police lathicharge on BKU activists on January 24.
Bureau Report