By IANS
Lucknow : Breaking his prolonged silence since his defeat in the April-May assembly elections, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav Sunday termed as “anti-farmer” his successor Mayawati’s agricultural policy that favours contract farming.
“The new policy favouring the entry of private players in agriculture will eventually spell doom for the poor farmer who is bound to lose all his land holding,” Yadav said of the policy announced 10 days ago.
He threatened to mobilise other political parties and build a movement against both the state government and the central government that had also supported the policy.
“I am in touch with my allies in the Third Front and they too have agreed to oppose this anti-farmer contract farming system,” said the Samajwadi Party chief.
Condemning the “passive attitude” of the Left parties in that regard, he said: “It seems they only believe in barking without biting.”
Yadav also flayed Mayawati for what he described as the “false implication of leaders and activists of the Samajwadi Party in fabricated criminal cases”.
“Her administration has gone to the extent of even attempting to implicate my son Akhilesh and a 90-year-old Samajwadi Party leader from Kannauj in a trumped-up rape case.
“But this tirade will not demoralize me or my cadres, we will fight back,” Yadav vowed.