Meerut: Forces which thrived by exploiting the farmers for decades are now trying to provoke them to create anarchy in the country, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath said on Sunday in Meerut, just 60km away from UP-Delhi border where protests against the new agriculture laws are taking place.
“The unity and integrity of this country is being challenged by these forces, which are using farmers as a means to achieve their target. It is not acceptable,” he said.
The chief minister also recalled former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s alleged remark made in 1985 to buttress his claim. “Rajiv Gandhi had said that only 15 paise of every rupee sent by the Centre reaches farmers,” the CM said at a rally, while asserting that some people still want that era to persist. The CM inaugurated the newly-constructed state-of-the-art central library at Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel Agriculture and Technical University in Meerut. He reached after a delay of over two hours as his helicopter could