Mayawati accused the opposition parties of indulging in "low-level" politics over land acquisition and said the Centre has not done anything to bring a new law on land acquisition.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Thursday launched a counter-offensive against opposition parties accusing them of provoking the farmers of Bhatta Parsaul into violence and charged the Centre with doing nothing to bring a new law for land acquisition.
"There was total peace in Bhatta Parsaul. But the opposition parties are trying to spark a law and order problem by provoking the farmers of the area", Mayawati was quoted as saying by UP Cabinet secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh.
She claimed the villagers of Bhatta Parsaul, the epicentre of the farmers' agitation against land acquisition by the state government, have made no demand and the situation there was "totally peaceful".
Mayawati accused the opposition parties of indulging in "low-level" politics over land acquisition and said the Centre has not done anything to bring a new law on land acquisition. However, it was the opposition parties which had made the demand and created a law and order problem by provoking the farmers, Singh told a press conference shortly after midnight.
She said the Centre has declared that a new law for land acquisition would be brought in Parliament but has so far taken no action on the issue.
She said the law relating to land acquisition comes within the ambit of the Centre which can take any decision to either amend the existing laws or frame new legislation.
The UP chief minister said "if Congress wants to do anything for farmers, who stops them?"
She said Bahujan Samaj Party would lay a siege of Parliament if a new bill for land acquisition was not brought in the monsoon session of Parliament.
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