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Chautala regime has betrayed farming community: Congress

By Our Special Correspondent

CHANDIGARH, DEC. 29. The working president of the Haryana unit of the Congress, Randeep Singh Surjewala, today alleged that the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) Government in Haryana had bartered and betrayed the farming community over the past six years by persistently pursuing anti-farmer policies.

In a statement here, Mr. Surjewala said Om Prakash Chautala rode to power in the 1999 parliamentary and February 2000 assembly elections by promising an end to the rapid decline in socio-economic well-being of farmers and farm labourers. "However, the reverse happened as brutal atrocities, incorrigible attack on unarmed congregations of farmers, unwarranted registration of a multitude of criminal cases against farmer leaders, dictatorial suppression of farmer agitations resulting into deaths, injuries and arrests marked the anti-farmer misrule of the Chautala's regime.

Mr. Surjewala said that the arrest of Ghasi Ram Nain, president of the Bhartiya Kisan Union, and nearly 1,000 other farmers in "fabricated" cases of sedition and other offences was "most shocking". He asserted that the Congress was committed to restoring the pride and prestige of the farming community. It would ensure that all the false criminal cases lodged against farm leaders are withdrawn without any conditionality. The party was also committed to providing adequate compensation to those farmers who were shot dead by the Haryana police.

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