Ghaziabad, Apri 10: Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) president Chaudhry Ajit Singh has lambasted Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati for being “anti-farmer” and playing politics on farmers’ land.
“Mayawati is playing politics on farmers’ land and their produce like wheat and sugarcane,” Singh said, while addressing a farmers’ rally last evening in Ramlila Maidan in Pilakhuwa town near here.
“The time has come, when Mayawati government, which is based on corrupt practices and only one objective of minting money should be uprooted from the state,” he said.
The RLD leader said there is an urgent need to change the land acquisition law enacted during the British rule.
He said no government should be empowered to acquire the farmers’ agriculture land without their consent and the farmers should have right to fix the rate of their own land.
-Agencies