The MP state government has accused the opposition Congress of “misleading” the peasants on the farmer’s issue.
Now that the BJP has agreed to hold farmers’ conventions at the divisional and district level in the state, Minister of Agriculture Kamal Patel conducts ‘chaupals’ or meetings with panchayat members and others in various villages. Patel insists that the farmers in Madhya Pradesh are satisfied with these laws because they would benefit.
As thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana, western Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, etc have taken part in ongoing protests along the border with Delhi, only farmers from Gwalior-Chambal Belt and Dewas in Madhya Pradesh have gone to the national capital while others stay in their villages and fields.
Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Anil Yadav claimed, however, that because Delhi was far from the Malwa-Nimar and Mahakaushal areas of Madhya Pradesh, only farmers from parts of the state had gone to Delhi.
