Chief of Opposition within the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Friday condemned “firing of tear fuel shells on the protesting farmers to cease them from coming into Delhi”.
Gandhi mentioned that “farmers wish to come to Delhi to place ahead their calls for earlier than the federal government and categorical their ache”. “Firing tear fuel shells on them and making an attempt to cease them in numerous methods is condemnable. The federal government ought to take heed to their calls for and issues critically,” mentioned Gandhi.
He mentioned that the struggling of the farmers could be gauged “from the truth that in the present day within the nation, one farmer is compelled to commit suicide each hour”. “The nation has not forgotten the martyrdom of greater than 700 farmers within the first farmers’ motion as a result of excessive insensitivity of the Modi authorities,” mentioned the Congress MP.
At a press convention on the AICC headquarters Friday, Congress MP and normal secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala mentioned: “The Modi authorities mentioned two issues in Parliament. When the agriculture minister was requested if they’ll make a regulation for assure of MSP, he dodged the query. When he was requested if farmers will get aid from debt, he refused. These present the intent of the Modi authorities.”
“The farmers who present meals are being stopped through the use of barricades, nails and wires. Narendra Modi has time to look at motion pictures however no time to satisfy farmers,” he mentioned.
