Narsinghpur: Having given some tough time to the central government with his acerbic remarks time and again, former union finance minister Yashwant Sinha reached Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday and staged dharna against criminal cases lodged against several farmers who were protesting against land acquisition and demanded permanent jobs in Narsinghpur district.
Sinha, alongside president of Rashtriya Kisan Mazdur Sangh Shivkumar Sharma ‘Kakkaji’ sat on dharna in front of Collectorate in Narsighpur and sought withdrawal of cases against the farmers.
The former senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sinha had offered 15 days ultimatum to the administration for withdrawing the cases registered on farmers and reached Narsinghpur on the expiry of the deadline on Wednesday.
Apparently, piqued over Modi government’s policies, Sinha, once among the mainstays of Bharatiya Janata Party, a couple of days ago had formed Rashtra Manch, a political action groups, to bring together people cutting across political lines to counter the Centre.
Prominent among the demands from Sinha include permanent jobs to the persons whose land were acquired for NTPC plant, sugarcane rates be fixed on the basis of sugar recovery, discontinuation of Bhavantar and implementation of Swaminathan committee report and so on.
“Slapping farmers with criminal cases was not justified in free India and these cases should be withdrawn,” said the former union minister.
Rashtriya Kisan Mazdur Sangh is holding indefinite strike demanding permanent jobs for those whose land was acquired for NTPC project in Gadarwara, Narsinghpur.
The sit-in continued till reports last came in. Those close to Sinha claimed that he could meet CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Bhopal on Thursday.
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