'Acche din' govt has failed India
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi yesterday attacked the Narendra Modi-led NDA government in Lok Sabha, accusing it of being 'pro-corporate and anti-farmer'.
"The farmer is India's backbone. The farmer gave us green revolution, because he was provided with the idea of MSP," Rahul said.
"Everything has been built on the foundations built by farmers.On the issue of MSP the 'acche din' govt has failed this country," he added.
Earlier in the day, amid uproar by the opposition MP, minister of state for parliamentary affairs Rajiv Pratap Rudy laid a copy of the land ordinance, promulgated by the President on April 3.
Opposition members raised slogans like "withdraw the bill" and "down with the anti-farmer government", terming the re-promulgation of the ordinance as "murder of democracy".
Top opposition leaders, including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi of Congress and Mulayam Singh Yadav of SP, were present in the House.
Speaker Sumitra Mahajan sought to pacify the members, saying the bill was yet to be introduced and they could protest when that happens.
The fresh ordinance, which is the 11th by the Narendra Modi government, incorporates nine amendments that were part of the bill passed in Lok Sabha last month.
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