UP farmers sold out by Mayawati?
Tractors that have turned into fire pits, their flames leaving what was a cloud-free sky scrambling for cover. Two young boys being slapped by men in uniform. A 70-year-old woman examining the shattered windows of her car. These are the images that have hurtled the villages of Bhatta and Parasul into the national headlines. They are located in Greater Noida, and their farmers say are being gypped out of lakhs of rupees by the government that tells them their land has to be handed over for a new expressway. Literally, highway robbery.
