Mayawati slams BJP over cane support price hike, calls move ‘selfish’

BSP president and former UP CM Mayawati on Monday alleged that the Uttar Pradesh government increased cane support prices ahead of the assembly elections for “selfish” motives. “The UP BJP government kept ignoring the farmers here for four and a half years and did not increase the support price of sugarcane, which I had pointed out during a conference of the enlightened classes in Lucknow on September 7. Now they have remembered sugarcane farmers just before elections which only shows their selfishness,” she said in a tweet in Hindi.