‘We are because of you all’: Mahatma Gandhi’s granddaughter lends assist to farmers’ protest

Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, Saturday visited Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, the place farmers have been staging protest for 78 days towards the Centre’s three new farm legislations and lent her assist to their agitation, information company PTI reported.
Addressing the media at Ghazipur, Gandhi stated, “We are because of you all. In the benefit of farmers lies the benefit of the country and all of us,” she stated.
“I want that whatever happens, farmers should be benefitted by it. Nobody is unaware of the hard work that the farmers do and it is not to be said again that in the benefit of farmers lies the benefit of our country, and all of us,” she added.
According to the assertion by the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), which was accessed by PTI, the 84-year-old urged farmers to stay peaceable of their protest and requested the federal government to “take care” of the farming group.
Gandhi, who can also be the chairperson of National Gandhi Museum, was joined by Gandhi Smarak Nidhi chairman Ramchandra Rahi, All-India Sarv Seva Sangha managing trustee Ashok Saran, Gandhi Smarak Nidhi director Sanjay Singha and National Gandhi Museum director A Annamalai.
“We have not come here as part of any political programme. We have come here today for the farmers, who have fed all of us our whole life,” she stated.
Thousands of farmers, primarily from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, are tenting at completely different borders of Delhi since November final 12 months in protest towards the three farm legal guidelines enacted by the Centre.
While the farmers declare that the brand new legal guidelines and lack of a legislation on MSP would harm their livelihoods, the federal government has maintained that the legislations are pro-farmer and would enhance their earnings.