‘Laws meant to finish farmers’
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra yesterday protested outside Delhi Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal's official residence, in solidarity with those farmers who have been protesting against the central government's recently introduced agricultural laws.
The protest by Congress, which has backed the farmers all this while, is part of its "Speak Up For Kisan Adhikar" campaign. The Congress was observing "Farmer Rights Day" yesterday and all state units had been asked to congregate around all Raj Bhavans in 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 The Congress will not relent till these laws are repealed.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," Rahul said leading the protest outside 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 around Delhi in decrepit conditions for the past many weeks. They have been protesting against three recently-passed farm laws perceived to be harmful to them.
The ninth round of discussion between farmers and the overnment -- held days after the Supreme Court stayed their enactment "until further orders" -- ended yesterday with no progress.
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