At Sisauli, the village of Mahendra Singh Tikait, on whose call half-a-million farmers from western Uttar Pradesh occupied New Delhi`s Boat Club lawns for a week in October 1988, anger against the Centre`s three agricultural reform laws is palpable. “There are 11,000 voters here. Out of 8,000-odd votes cast in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, nearly 5,500 went to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Lekin is mudde par kisan aur party alag hai. Bahut virodh hai (but on this issue, farmers aren`t with the party and there is tremendous opposition),” says Yashpal Banji, ex-chairman of the Sisauli Nagar Panchayat now headed by his wife Neeru Devi. Sisauli, in Muzaffarnagar district`s Budhana tehsil, is a...
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