In yet another hit out at the BJP-led NDA government at the center, Meghalaya governor Satya Pal Malik said, the farmers cannot be defeated and will continue to protest until their legit demands on the issue of implementation and legal guarantee on Minimum Support Price on the farm produce are met.
Satya Pal Malik was addressing an event at a cow shelter in Kira Village in Nuh. “If MSP is not implemented and legal guarantee on MSP is not given, there will be another fight and this time it will be a fierce fight.
You cannot defeat the farmer of this country. You cannot scare him… since you cannot send ED or Income-Tax officers, how will you scare the farmer?”
Taking a dig at the government in his scathing Esque Malik went on to say, “The MSP is not being implemented because Prime Minister has a friend whose name is Adani, who at the moment has become Asia’s richest person in five years,” he said.
He alleged that the government is planning to sell this country corroborating his point Malik shared his experience saying, “At Guwahati airport, I met a woman holding a bouquet.
When I asked her where she was from, she replied ‘We have come on behalf of Adani’. I asked what does that mean. She said this airport has been handed over to Adani… and slowly they will sell the country.”
Talking about the wide range of issues associated with farmers Malik said, Adani has built a big warehouse and stocked it with wheat bought at cheap rates.
“When there is inflation, he will sell that wheat… so these PM’s friends will make profits and farmers will suffer. This will not be tolerated and there will be a fight against it,” he said.
Malik in the backdrop of farmer’s protests has emerged as a strong votary of farmers and their matters and has made several such critical comments on PM Modi and the central government. In January this year, Malik even said being critical of Modi that the PM is too arrogant.
On Sunday yet again Malik emphasized on the matter he have said earlier, “I saw that farmers were sitting on Delhi’s borders…
I told the PM that each man among them was the head of 40 villages…700 farmers died. When a dog dies, a condolence message from Delhi is sent. No condolence message was sent for farmers…”
At the event, he assured the crowd that upon completion of his ongoing tenure he will fully dedicate himself to the service of farmers and will “fully participate” in the movement.
Among other several remarks, he appealed during the course of his talk to set aside the caste-based difference and unite for a greater cause for farming, for your right. He said, “No government can defeat you if you learn to fight together.”