Farmers protesting for the last six months against the farm laws brought by BjP government at the Centre , have announced a “Defeat BJP: Mission Uttar Pradesh” campaign to be started ahead of the 2022 assembly elections in the state.
Similar to West Bengal, farmers pledge to create a movement against the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, where assembly polls are slated in 2022.
As per a report published on The Wire, The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella organisation with over 500 farmers’ organizations, which is coordinating the protests, has said that it will be done by holding Mahapanchayats across the state with anti-BJP slogans.
According to the report, since the farmers’ protest against the three farm laws began, there has been a political churn among farmers across the state, especially in its western districts such as Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat, Shamli and Saharanpur, to take on the BJP.