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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | No wilting heat of farmers’ rage -Priscilla Jebaraj

No wilting heat of farmers’ rage -Priscilla Jebaraj

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published Published on Mar 10, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 11, 2022

-The Hindu

Limited impact in western Uttar Pradesh’s sugarcane belt

After attracting thousands of farmers from Punjab and Uttar Pradesh to join a year-long agitation, farm union leaders were largely unable to leverage that mass support to tilt the results in the Assembly polls. 

In Punjab, the union leaders who fought the elections are set to lose their deposits. In U.P., where the wider Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) platform campaigned against the BJP and called for its ouster, leaders claimed that farmers across the state voted along caste and communal lines.

“It is a failure of democracy. We tried to consolidate all farmers on the basis of the problems they face as a community. Instead, they are voting for those who share their caste or religion. Farmers have failed to vote for their own welfare,” said Yudhvir Singh, general secretary of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Tikait), a major SKM player whose supporters camped at the Ghazipur protest site on Delhi’s eastern border for a year during the protests over the three agricultural laws, since repealed by the Centre.

The sugarcane belt of western U.P. from where BKU (Tikait) draws most of its support base did show a limited impact of the farm movement. According to estimates from The Hindu Data Team, the alliance led by the Samajwadi Party garnered a 42% vote share in this region, equal to the BJP, and 16 percentage points higher than in the last polls in 2017. In the key sugar belt constituencies of Shamli and Kairana, for instance, SP and RLD candidates were leading as the vote counting process drew to a close on Thursday evening.

However, the Centre’s decision to repeal those laws in the run up to elections, as well as the U.P. government’s success in reducing the payment of arrears to cane farmers, took some of the wind out of the sails of the farm movement when it came to electoral gains. In Muzaffarnagar — where Rakesh Tikait and other SKM leaders held a mass rally calling for the ouster of the BJP government with war cries of Hindu-Muslim unity last September — the BJP’s candidate held a solid lead.

In other parts of the State, the appeal for a farmer vote bank failed to gain traction. Apart from sugar, U.P. also leads the country in potato production. However, the potato growing region of the State, spread between Agra and Kanpur, clearly went with the BJP, which won a 46% vote share there in contrast to the 35% won by the SP alliance, according to The Hindu Data Team’s estimates. Across the State, the SP alliance garnered a 36% vote share in rural areas, trailing the 43% who voted for the BJP.

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The Hindu, 10 March, 2022, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/no-wilting-heat-of-farmers-rage/article65211738.ece?homepage=true


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