Chandigarh, April 29 : Scoffing at the unusual meetings being hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his residence for the past few months with prominent religious, political and social Sikh figures including former bureaucrats and prominent Sikhs from across the country and abroad, Mahila Kisan Union President Bibi Rajwinder Kaur Raju said the PM Modi, who has been in power for a decade, had not held a single such direct meeting or discussion with the struggling farmers of the nation for their betterment, as a result, there was great anger and resentment among the toiling community and farm workers.
Expressing these view in a statement on Friday, the Mahila Kisan Union President Bibi Rajwinder Kaur Raju said the Modi government had not fulfilled even a single clause of the written agreement officially signed to suspend the historic farmers’ agitation held at Delhi borders. In contrast, Modi himself and the UP government openly helped murder accused Ashish Mishra and his father, Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni, who thrashed unarmed farmers under his jeep in Lakhimpur Kheri (UP).
The women farmer leader said the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) had already warned the BJP led central government to launch the second phase of ‘Kisan Andolan’ for acceptance of their long pending demands. “Hence apprehending the anger of farmers, the PM was striving to thwart such possible movement under a farsighted political ploy on a script written by right wingers. He was inviting some social and religious figures, ‘Babas’, businessmen and retired ‘Babus’ from Punjab and Delhi including abroad, who have personal ambitions, so that they shouldn’t not come forward to offer any support to farmers agitation in future.
Referring to the above-mentioned larger conspiracy, farmer leader Bibi Raju said such ‘Babas’ and ‘Babus’ would no longer be perceptible in the face of fierce winds of struggle to be launched for the rights of toiling community as people from all walks of life with a clear conscience were ready to give their full support to the coming farmers’ resistance and it would trash all such ‘substitutes’ of the saffron party. “So Modi government should immediately accept all the demands of the SKM and not force the farmers to launch the second phase of the agitation”, She cautioned.
On the slogan ‘Kisan Samridh & Desh Majboot’, being propagated by Modi, the women leader Bibi Raju appealed to the Prime Minister to come out of the clutches of his subordinate bureaucrats, inexperienced politicians and non-farming ministers and to implement all the clauses of the written agreement signed with the SKM. “He should Immediately hold high level meeting with main leaders of Kisan Morcha for better development of agriculture sector and comprehensive upliftment of farming community thereby healing the wounds and atrocious treatment done on farmers by BJP governments and BJP workers in the past” she wished-for.
