Chief minister Mayawati made a fresh overture by directing officials to provide adequate prices to the farmers of their produce.
Agitating farmers today rejected Uttar Pradesh government's higher compensation package for their land acquired for Yamuna Expressway project and also threatened to stall construction work of the road.
Chief minister Mayawati made a fresh overture by directing officials to provide adequate prices to the farmers of their produce.
"The income of farmers should be increased by giving special impetus to milk production, animal husbandry, pisciculture, sericulture and horticulture sector," she said.
Protesting against the acquisition of their land for the Expressway and the JP township near Edmadpur town, farmers of Edmadpur tehsil in Agra continued to sit on dharna in front of Chhalesar police outpost for the third consecutive day today.
The agitating farmers turned down the new compensation offer of Rs580 per sq m by the state government.
A spokesperson of the action committee of the farmers said the peasants will not settle for anything less than the rate of Rs850 per sq yard given to their Noida counterparts.
Besides, they would not give land for JP township near Edmadpur at any cost.
On the other hand, BKU leader Mahendra Singh Tikait threatened to stall construction of Noida-Agra Expressway if the demands for compensation for their land acquired for the project were not met.
"Farmers will not allow any further progress of construction work on the Noida-Agra Expressway unless all the just demands of the farmers are accepted," Tikait told a gathering at Jikarpur in Aligarh where peasants continued their dharna.
Opposing the state government's present policy of negotiating land deals through third parties, he said those who want to buy farmers' land should talk directly with them.
Addressing the agitating farmers a couple of hours earlier, AICC general secretary Digvijay Singh assured them that both Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were strongly in favour of meting out justice to farmers.
"We do not wish to extract any political mileage from the sufferings of the farmers and therefore the state government should immediately respond to their pleas," the Congress leader, who is also in charge of the party's affairs in the state, said.
In Mathura, farmer leader Ram Babu Katelia said that the ultimate aim is to get proper compensation.
A large number of panchayats to garner support of farmers gathered at Barauli, Gukharauli, Magana, Sarai, Salvan, Nera, Akos, Kanjauli and Kachanau villages in the district.
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