‘Laws Meant To Finish Farmers’: Rahul Gandhi Leads Congress Delhi Protest

Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as we speak protested exterior Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal’s official residence as we speak, in solidarity with these farmers who’ve been protesting in opposition to the central authorities’s lately launched agricultural legal guidelines.

The protest by Congress, which has backed the farmers all this whereas, is a part of its “Speak Up For Kisan Adhikar” marketing campaign. The Congress is observing Kisan Adhikar Divas (Farmer Rights Day) as we speak and all state models have been requested to congregate round all Raj Bhavans within the states.

“BJP goverment will have to withdraw the farm laws. The Congress will not relent till these laws are repealed. These laws are not to help farmers, but to finish them,” Mr Gandhi stated main the protest exterior Raj Niwas.

“The Narendra Modi government earlier tried to take away the land of farmers, when it brought the land acquisition Act and the Congress party stopped them at that time. Now the BJP and their two-three friends are once again attacking the farmers and have brought these three farm laws,” he alleged.

Thousands of farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan have been camped in and round Delhi in decrepit circumstances for the previous many weeks. They have been protesting in opposition to three recently-passed farm legal guidelines perceived to be dangerous to them. Farmer representatives are as we speak assembly authorities officers to debate methods to interrupt the impasse.

“The ‘annadata’ of the country are doing Satyagraha against their arrogant Modi government for their rights. Today, entire India is raising its voice against the atrocities on farmers and rising prices of petrol and diesel. You too join and become a part of this Satyagraha. #SpeakUpForKisanAdhikar,” tweeted Mr Gandhi forward of the as we speak’s march to Raj Niwas.

On January 9, a digital assembly of Congress leaders determined to go aggressive in opposition to the Centre and can “hit the ground” over the farm legal guidelines.

The three contentious legal guidelines are Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.

Following the protest earlier than Raj Niwas, the Congress leaders strikes to Jantar Mantar to proceed with the protest.

During the March, celebration chief Alka Lamba sustained a minor damage on her hand because it brushed in opposition to some barbed wires laid down by the police.