BJP reaches out to khap leaders in western Uttar Pradesh
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Senior leaders including Union ministers, state ministers, MPs, MLAs and party office-bearers have been involved in this outreach.
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BJP leaders of western Uttar Pradesh are meeting influential people among the Jat community and also reaching out to khap pradhans or community leaders amid the farmers’ agitation against the three central farm laws.
Senior leaders including Union ministers, state ministers, MPs, MLAs and party office-bearers have been involved in this outreach.
On Saturday, Union minister Sanjeev Balyan along with state minister Bhupendra Chaudhary, MLAs Tejendra Nirwal and Umesh Malik and the BJP’s western UP president Mohit Beniwal met heads of various khap groups. They met Ahlawat Khap head Gajendra Ahlawat, Deshwal Khap head Baba Rajinder Singh and the secretary of Sarva Khap, Subhash Balyan.
BJP efforts to convince western UP community leaders on merits of agri laws met with indifference
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“The minister Sanjeev Balyan came to meet us along with the MLAs and other leaders. I can’t refuse because that is not our culture,” Gajendra Ahlawat, head of Ahlawat Khap, told ET.
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Several other khap leaders, however, said they refused to meet the BJP leaders and instead appealed to them to meet the farmer leaders of Sanyukt Kisan Morcha.
New Delhi: The BJP’s efforts to convince the khap pradhans (community leaders) of western Uttar Pradesh about the merits of the contentious central farm laws got off to an indifferent start as some pradhans refused to meet them while others said after the meeting that they remained steadfast in their opposition to the laws.