New Delhi, Feb 10 (UNI) Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party, accusing the Centre of pursuing “anti-farmer” and “anti-agriculture” policies and surrendering national interests to foreign powers.
In a message posted on his WhatsApp channel, Yadav questioned the future of Indian farmers if agricultural dependence on imports continues to grow.
“When everything starts coming from abroad, what will the farmer grow? Will he be able to sell anything? What will he earn?” Yadav asked. “In short, what will he eat today, and what will he be able to save for tomorrow?”
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said farmers were being pushed into economic distress, affecting every aspect of rural life—from education and healthcare to family responsibilities.
“How will he educate his children? How will he get medical treatment for the elderly in his family? How will he marry off his daughters with dignity and happiness?” Yadav said, adding that farmers would be left with no capacity to save for their future.
Akhilesh Yadav asserted that “no government in our country can survive by harming farmers” and demanded that the BJP-led government explain “why it feels compelled to surrender national interests before foreign powers.”
Escalating his criticism, the SP chief alleged that the BJP was attempting to take control of agriculture through policy measures that benefit intermediaries rather than producers.
“Sometimes the BJP conspires to grab agriculture and farming through land-acquisition laws; at other times, it pushes farmers toward death through black laws,” he said. “The BJP mindset is that of middlemen, it does not believe in production or cultivation, but only in filling its own pockets through commissions in between.”
Yadav also called for exposing what he described as “BJP middlemen” operating not just within agricultural markets but even among farmers themselves.
“Not only in agriculture and farming, but even among farmers, the BJP middlemen sitting in between must be exposed,” he said.
Stepping up his criticism of the BJP-led government, Yadav said, “The farmer says today: we do not want the BJP. If the BJP goes, agriculture can survive.”
With elections approaching in several states and agriculture remaining central to rural politics, opposition leaders are sharpening their attacks on the government’s farm policies, positioning farmer welfare as a key electoral issue.
