At protest in opposition to farm legal guidelines in Nagpur, Balasaheb Thorat slams Narendra Modi

Maharashtra Congress President and Cabinet Minister Balasaheb Thorat on Saturday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he has turn into a “slave” of the “big capitalists”. Thorat was addressing a gathering of Congress employees and farmers in entrance of Raj Bhavan right here, the place the social gathering staged a protest, below its nationwide programme to gherao governors’ residences, in opposition to the Centre’s three farm legal guidelines. The Congress had earlier deliberate the agitation in Mumbai however they needed to shift the venue to Nagpur after Governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari arrived right here on a five-day go to.
“Our PM has become a slave of the big capitalists and is now hell bent on making farmers their slaves. But we will not allow our freedom to be taken away and will force the government to repeal the three laws,” Thorat stated.

He alleged the acts goal to assist the massive industrialists earn revenue by permitting them to purchase the farmers’ produce at low cost charges. “Some have even set up huge silos in north India,” Thorat added.
“We protest to express solidarity with thousands of farmers agitating in Delhi for the past 52 days in biting cold. We will continue to protest till the laws are repealed,” he stated. Several ministers of the Maha Vikas Aghadi authorities, Congress MLAs and different leaders have been current on the rally. A delegation, led by Thorat, later met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari and gave him a memorandum, looking for repeal of legal guidelines.