Jodhpur: Thousands of farmers assembled in Bhinmal, a few kilometers from where chief minister Vasundhara Raje’s Gaurav Yatra travelled and took a pledge to root out her government in the state. Held under the banner of Rajasthan Kissan Sangharsh Samiti, the farmers in this demonstration termed her anti-farmer, who did not keep her promise made during Suraj Yatra that she would bring the water of Mahi Bajaj Sagar to Jalore.

“During her public meeting, Raje had promised that if voted to power she would bring the water of Mahi Bajaj Sagar to Jalore. She also included this promise in her election manifesto,” said Vikram Singh Punasa, president of Samiti. “Trusting her, we voted her amass but in all these years she did nothing except forming a committee,” said Punasa asking that what ‘gaurav’ she has been enjoying.

Punasa said that Raje had also promised to bring out the district from the category of dark zone to grey zone. Addressing the farmers, a social worker and farmer Shravan Singh Rathore said that had she been concerned about the farmers, she would have come to us and tried to know about our grievance. “But she marched past this meeting of farmers indifferently. She does not have any concern for the farmers and she pretends to be farmers’ sympathizer,” Rathore said.

Women also turned up in this demonstration in a very large number and vowed that they would not be carried away by any such promise and would vote against Raje. Condemning the government for its anti-farmer stand, Sunita Bishnoi, a farmer from Jalore called upon all the women to root the government in this election. The speakers said that Raje had mentioned 652 works in her 60 page long poll manifesto but not a single work has been completed and asked that why Raje has been carrying out Gaurav Yatra then.

