Lucknow, Nov 21 (TIWN) By announcing the roll back of the three farm laws and apologising for his inability to convince farmers on the issue, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has managed to effectively check the reverses that the BJP was likely to face in the upcoming Assembly elections.
The BJP is elated that this major issue that has changed political alignments in western Uttar Pradesh, in particular, has been neutralised by the Prime Minister.

The situation turned even more grim when the BJP lost in the panchayat elections and no efforts to assuage the caste feelings in the region had any impact.

"We knew that the issue will dominate the campaign and we will face reverses in western Uttar Pradesh where the farmers' agitation had a major impact. The Prime Minister's decision to roll back the farm laws will help us to a great extent but we now face the problem of justifying our earlier support to the contentious laws in the past months," said a BJP MLA from the region.

The state unit of the BJP is confident that the rollback decision will help it greatly in regaining lost ground in western Uttar Pradesh.

"We are working overtime to regain lost ground after the Prime Minister's announcement. We are also confident that farmers will now listen to what we have to say. After all, there is so much that the Modi and Yogi governments have done for the benefit of farmers and we now need to carry the message forward," said Uttar Pradesh BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh.