While the farmers rampaged the national capital on Republic Day and effectuated an uncontrollable spate of violence on the streets of Delhi and the Red Fort, Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh – which goes to polls next year, remained absolutely calm. In fact, the real farmers of the state are supportive of the three reforms, as is the case with farmers across the country. This is precisely why the Yogi administration in UP had for so long simply ignored the anarchists camping on various border sites connecting the state with Delhi. Now, however, the good times for such motivated political activists masquerading as farmers are over.
An unprecedented campaign has already started, and at least three main border areas – which were venues of the protesting farmers, have now been cleared by the UP police. The Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government has removed ongoing Kisan dharnas from all three places in the state, namely Chilla border and Rashtriya Prerna Sthal & Green Garden in Noida and Baraut in Baghpat. At Ghazipur, meanwhile, the massive police deployment yesterday made the agitators jittery, and Rakesh Tikait was forced to call in help from Samajwadi Party, RLD and other political parties. Effectively, the demonstrators at Ghazipur are not farmers, but political workers of various parties.
As such, the insurrectionists are being punished by UP Police on a daily basis.
The UP farmers, meanwhile, are being reached out to at an unimaginable scale by the Yogi government. This, to prevent them from getting swayed by propaganda and joining the bandwagon of political workers pretending to be farmers. On January 6, the Yogi government launched a three-week-long Kisan Kalyan Mission, under which Yogi Adityanath has directed officials to prepare the blueprint of organising block-level farmers’ meets, seminars, exhibitions and fairs, and integrating the farming community with the Central and state government agricultural and allied sector schemes.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has himself been leaving no opportunity to highlight that the new Central farm laws are aimed at doubling farm income and providing an additional marketing avenue to farmers to sell their produce, apart from the government notified mandis, of course. And the UP administration has been highly successful in its endeavour, as a majority of those camping on Delhi’s eastern borders are in fact people from Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand, etc.
Yogi Adityanath, from the very first day of the fake farmers’ protest, has been taking proactive steps to win over the real farmers while ignoring those camping on Delhi’s borders. Now that those on the borders of Delhi have been caught red-handed having anarchical tendencies – the BJP-led UP government is not wasting a single wakeful moment in thrashing the living daylights out of them. All this, while maintaining the law-and-order situation in Uttar Pradesh cent percent.
