The Centre’s new farm legal guidelines are designed to “destroy” the agriculture sector, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi alleged on Tuesday and asserted that the one answer to the farmers’ challenge is to repeal the legislations.
At a press convention, Gandhi additionally launched a booklet highlighting the “plight” of farmers within the wake of the Centre’s three farm legal guidelines.
He alleged that the legal guidelines will put the whole agriculture sector within the palms of “three to four crony capitalists”.
The Centre’s new farm legal guidelines are “designed to destroy” the agriculture sector, the previous Congress chief mentioned.
“I support the protesting farmers 100 per cent and every single person in the country should support them as they are fighting for us,” he mentioned.
There is only one answer that these three legal guidelines should repealed, Gandhi mentioned when requested concerning the deadlock in talks between the federal government and the protesting farmers.
Hitting again at BJP president J P Nadda for his tweets earlier within the day criticising him, the Congress chief mentioned it was an “attempted distraction”. The farmers know that it was Rahul Gandhi who stood up in Bhatta Parsaul and over the land acquisition challenge, not BJP chief Nadda, he mentioned.
“I am not afraid of anyone, neither of (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi nor of anyone else. I am a clean person, they can’t touch me. They can shoot me, but can’t touch me. I am a patriot and I protect my country, and I will keep doing it,” he mentioned.
Thousands of farmers, principally from Haryana and Punjab, have been protesting at a number of border factors of Delhi since November 28 final yr, demanding a repeal of the three legal guidelines and a authorized assure to the minimal help value (MSP) system for his or her crops.
Enacted in September final yr, the three legal guidelines have been projected by the Centre as main reforms within the agriculture sector that may take away middlemen and permit farmers to promote their produce anyplace within the nation.
However, the protesting farmers have expressed their apprehension that the brand new legal guidelines would pave the best way for eliminating the protection cushion of the MSP and put off the “mandi” (wholesale market) system, leaving them on the mercy of huge corporates.
