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Sharad Pawar re-elected NCP chief, targets Modi
Patna, June 10
Nationalist Congress Party
president Sharad Pawar has been re-elected NCP president at the party's
national executive meeting here on Wednesday, a senior leader said.
"Sharad
Pawar was re-elected NCP president at the party's sixth national
executive meeting in Patna," NCP senior leader Tariq Anwar told media
here.
Nearly 700 leaders of the NCP from across the country participated in the meeting.
Soon
after being re-elected the NCP president, Pawar targeted Prime Minister
Narendra Modi saying that there were no "achche din for farmers in the
country".
"Farmers were afraid of the central government's Land
Acquisition Bill because it aimed at taking away their lands forcibly.
It is not a good sign at all," Pawar said.
Pawar also said that
the central government has reduced the agricultural expenditure from
Rs.1,9852 crore to Rs.1,7000 crore and this has angered the farmers all
the more.
He added that the Centre's decision to reduce the
government's expenditure towards agriculture has severely affected
ambitious projects like green revolution in eastern India and the
national horticulture mission.