PILIBHIT: The sugarcane growers who have staged indefinite dharna outside the Barkhera town-based Bajaj sugar mill in Pilibhit since January 2, demanding their full and final payment of the cane price arrears, on Friday alleged that the district administration and the sugar mill management tried to convince a group of BJP supported farmers to call off the protest.
They said that the district cane officer, Jitendra Kumar Mishra, the SDM of Bisalpur circle, Rishikant Rajvanshi and the vice president of Bajaj sugar mill, Rakesh Yadav reached an amicable agreement with a few BJP-supported farmers on January 11. The mill management was given undue relaxations to clear off the cane price arrears of the previous crushing year.
Farmers allege that the group lifted the dharna the same day after a pre-planned plot. The group included Kamlesh Gangwar, the son of BJP's present 'Block Pramukh' Rama Devi Gangwar.
