After Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Rashtriya Loktantric Party (RLP) head Hanuman Beniwal also left the National Democratic Alliance on Saturday. Addressing the farmers’ rally in Shahjahanpur, in the Alwar district of Rajasthan, Beniwal said: “Goodbye. We are leaving NDA. Nothing is above the pride of the country’s farmers ”.
Bharatiya Janata state party (BJP) spokesman Mukesh Pareekh said that Beniwal’s party is an independent party and a one-man unit. “Only because of him, the BJP left the Nagaur parliamentary seat and helped him win the elections,” he said.
“Previously, he had supported farm laws, but now, just to gain political mileage, he has resigned from the alliance,” Pareekh added.
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in September also withdrew from the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition in the Center over the passage of controversial agricultural bills passed in Parliament earlier this month.
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Thousands of RLP supporters joined the farmers’ protest on Saturday on the Jaipur-Delhi National Highway in Shahjahanpur along the Rajasthan-Haryana border.
At around 3pm on Saturday, hundreds of vehicles had arrived at the border from the Kotputli area in rural Jaipur. RLP workers had placed a separate pandal on the stretch from where farmers have been protesting on the road for 14 days.
“I ask the central government not to play with llamas. Any government that has dared to go against it has been dethroned. Because of this act, the agricultural mandis will end. Why didn’t the government consult the farmers? Due to this act the raj of the terrestrial mafias will increase. I don’t understand why the government doesn’t roll back the laws, ”Beniwal said at the protest site.
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Beniwal, who calls himself the son of a farmer, said he had always supported them. “The central government is in the mood to crush the farmers’ protest. But this is the issue of farmers’ livelihood and pride and we support them, ”he said.
Last week, the disappointed head of the RLP, who is a member of parliament (MP) from Nagaur’s Lok Sabha, resigned from three parliamentary committees in support of the farmers’ issue.
Farmers from Rajasthan, Haryana and Gujarat had started heading towards Delhi earlier this month, but were stopped by Rewari police on the Haryana-Rajasthan border. Since then, they have been protesting in Shahjahanpur in the Alwar district on the Rajasthan-Haryana border.
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