New promises and faces helped the BJP address the resentment felt by farmers
The HinduThe agricultural belts in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh too have favoured the BJP, despite the campaigns by the Opposition and the Samyukt Kisan Morcha against the BJP over economic distress on the rural front. According to BJP leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s guarantee at election rallies that he would extend the Prime Minister’s Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana for another five years also helped the rural and urban electorate look towards the BJP. “A slew of measures helped us to win the confidence of farmers,” Bansi Lal Gurjar, national vice president of the BJP’s farmers’ wing, Bharatiya Kisan Morcha, said. The BJP, however, had to face protests by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha’s State unit over the three farm laws, and encouraging cultivation of concentrated poppy straws in place of the traditional way of extracting latex in licensed opium farming. Appointing Satish Poonia as State president of the party had an impact on the farmers, and also giving opportunities for people from farmers’ background in the local self governments,” he said.
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