As the eighth spherical of talks between the federal government and farmer’s unions ended inconclusively, the Opposition Friday hit out on the authorities, accusing it of attempting to tire out the farmers by holding assembly after assembly.
“Our farmers are fighting for justice and deserve compassion and sensitive understanding, not merely technical reading of rules. The government and the Hon’ble Supreme Court must understand that while farmers will survive Covid, their satyagrah is for their very survival,” senior Congress chief Anand Sharma stated.
Congress communication division head Randeep Surjewala stated the federal government is attempting to tire out the farmers by holding assembly after assembly. “But the farmers will neither get tired nor bow down,” Surjewala stated.
Sharma stated that in a free nation, the farmers would have had the suitable to protest contained in the nationwide capital and never be stopped on the borders.
Alleging that the BJP authorities has crossed all limits of “cruelty” and “ruthlessness”, AICC basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra stated “the country has to think whether laws for farmers should emerge from their fields or in made the drawing rooms of a handful of billionaire friends of the BJP government.” She stated the Congress is not going to again down from its demand that the legal guidelines ought to be repealed.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi tweeted in Hindi: “Those whose intentions are not clear, it is their strategy to give one date after another.”
Condemning the perspective of the federal government, CPI basic secretary D Raja stated the federal government have to be honest in holding talks and delicate to the issues of farmers. “The government remains rigid, adamant and arrogant, not accepting the demand of the farmers. It should accept the demand of farmers and repeal the three agri-laws,” he stated.
