But what did Mayawati do? He asked and quipped “when rich sell their land they get the market price. But if a poor farmer sells his land and asks for adequate compensation he got bullets and labeled as Naxal. In Tappal and Bhatta-Parsaul a lot of farmers were assaulted by the BSP Government. Police fired at the agitating farmers when they were fighting against the wrong land acquisition by the UP Government. Mayawatiji did not go there. I went there, listened to them and understood their problems. The Congress led Government at the centre did not stop at that. It drafted a new Land Acquisition Bill. But some parties have been trying to block it behind the closed doors of the Parliament”.
