BHOPAL: Deputy Prime Minister Devi Lal Thursday declared that he would not contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha poils
Ata meet the press programme here Devi Lal said “I am now 77. For how long will ] remain in active politics?”
Devi Lal said he wanted to bring the nation’s farmers under a single forum as they constituted about 80% of the population and to help forma farmer’s government in the county.
The deputy prime minister said the anti-defection law would be scrapped if the Janata Dal (S) came to power at the center after the mid-term polls he said adding that due to the law all members of Parliament were forced to act like bounded laborers
He alleged that the anti-defection law had been passed at the behest of capitalists and because of this a government of farmers could not be formed at the center.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 19, 1991
