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Modi misleading farmers, says AAP
The AAP on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of cheating farmers by aggressively promoting takeover of their land.
Addressing
Aam Aadmi Party supporters at the Ghaziabad collectorate, party leader
Sanjay Singh said Modi was misleading the farmers by claiming that his
government was not harming their interests.
Sanjay Singh also hit
out at the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh and said the AAP
would "uproot" the state government in the next assembly elections.
Speaking
at the venue, another AAP leader, Kumar Vishwas, said the party was
determined to spread its wings all over the country.
"The AAP
will come up in all the states and will oppose any legislation that
gives the right to authorities to snatch land from farmers arbitrarily,"
he said.
He said the land acquisition bill was a "conspiracy to loot the farmers' precious land ... to set up industry".
The
AAP leaders presented a memorandum addressed to the Uttar Pradesh
governor to be forwarded to President Pranab Mukherjee opposing land
acquisition and demanding compensation to farmers for loss of crops.