Farmers must talk to the government about their concerns: Sanjeev Balyan

BJP leader Sanjeev Balyan has said that the farmer leaders must come and talk to the government about their objections and allegations. He said the government is ready to talk to the farmers, but somehow different parties are putting the farmers ahead and playing politics.

New Delhi: BJP leader Sanjeev Balyan has said that the farmer leaders must come and talk to the government about their objections and allegations. He said the government is ready to talk to the farmers, but somehow different parties are putting the farmers ahead and playing politics. He added that as far as the slogans raised by Rakesh Tikait like "Allah Hu Akbar" and "Har Har Mahadev" are concerned, such communal harmony slogans have been raised in Kisan Mahapanchayat earlier also.

On the question of Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav accusing the government of calling the farmers terrorists, Union Minister Sanjeev Balyan said in clear words that whether it is the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samajwadi Party or any other political parties which are doing politics behind the farmers' protest, have no longer any mass following or their own agenda anymore.

On the question that the farmers movement has shifted from Delhi to Uttar Pradesh, he said that there are elections in the rest of the states and this movement is moving towards Uttar Pradesh because of the elections. He added that the Bharatiya Janata Party government will be formed again in Uttar Pradesh. He also said that he is also supporting the demand of sugarcane farmers in UP and said that the government should give fair prices to the farmers. But due to the political nature of the movement, the discussion is difficult.