Saharanpur: BJP president Rajnath Singh on Friday hit out the SP and BSP for extending support to the UPA government saying the two political parties have cheated the people by backing Congress and its allies at the Centre. "Despite their differences with the Congress, both SP and BSP have cheated people by supporting the UPA government," he said in public rally in Saharanpur.
"The UPA government does not have the required majority, but it was the support of BSP and SP due to some reasons, it was still in power," he said. Singh held Congress responsible for the problems faced by the common man. "Since independence, Congress has been in power for more than five decades, but it failed to take decisions to benefit the people," he said.
He also slammed the Samajwadi Party state government for the alleged failure to clear the dues sugarcane farmers. "The pending dues of sugarcane farmers should be immediately cleared," he said.
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08:16 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Mumbai: A day after two farmers died and buses were torched following violence in the sugarcane belt of Maharashtra, a political slanging match is on. Anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare on Tuesday hit out at Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, blaming him for provoking violence over the minimum support price for sugarcane in Sangli, Kolhapur and Satara districts. "It is because of Sharad Pawar's comments that the violence erupted. what has he...
07:46 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Mumbai: Condemning the firing incident in which a farmer was killed in Sangli district, the Shiv Sena on Tuesday flayed NCP president Sharad Pawar over his remarks about a prominent farmers' leader in Maharashtra. Senior Sena leader Diwakar Raote said, "Farmers anywhere do not have caste." Pawar's remarks are "a ploy to split the farmers' agitation," he alleged. Raote's comments came in the wake of Pawar's remarks in Baramati on...
06:44 PM, Nov 13, 2012
Sangli in Maharashtra remains tense, a day after two sugarcane farmers were killed in clashes with the police. They were part of a group of farmers led by MP Raju Shetty, who were demanding the government's intervention to increase the minimum support price of sugarcane. Backing the farmers now are activists Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal. Kejriwal will be meeting Shetty on Wednesday at Pune's Yerawada prison. ...
05:46 PM, Nov 13, 2012
New Delhi: In a setback to sugar mill owners on Tuesday, the Supreme Court directed private mill owners to pay approximately Rs 1000 crores to UP sugarcane farmers. The state government had fixed a particular price for sugarcane farmers a few years back, because of which a backlog of nearly one thousand crore rupees turned up. The matter was challenged in court. VM Singh, petitioner in the Supreme Court, said...
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