Not just Khattar, but others say BJP leaders have been treading cautiously on the issue, maintaining that law will take its own course, but the simmering discontent amid the Jat community is a concern in the state unit
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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.