Told President that farm laws 2020 are anti-farmer: Rahul Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi on Farmers: Amid farmers protest against farm laws 2020, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Thursday visited Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Rahul Gandhi said, "I told the President that these farm laws 2020 are anti-farmer and that the country has seen farmers standing up against these laws".
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"I want to tell the PM that these farmers are not going to go back home until these farm laws 2020 are repealed. Govt should convene a joint session of Parliament and take back these laws. Opposition parties stand with farmers and labourers," Gandhi said.
He also said that "PM Narendra Modi was making money for the crony capitalists. Whoever will try to stand against him will be called terrorist - be it farmers, labourers and even Mohan Bhagwat."
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Furthermore, he said that "There was no democracy in India. It can be in your imagination, but not in reality," Rahul said after Delhi Police took party leaders into custody during their march to Rashtrapati Bhavan
He also said that "China is still at the border. It has snatched away thousands of km of the land of India. Why doesn't PM speak about it, why is he silent?"
"You have an incompetent man who does not understand anything & running a system on the behalf of 3 or 4 other people who understand everything," he added.
On the other hand, Delhi Police took Priyanka Gandhi and other party leaders to Mandir Marg Police Station in New Delhi. They were taking out a march to Rashtrapati Bhavan to submit to the President a memorandum containing 2 crore signatures seeking his intervention in farm laws issue.
"We're living in a democracy and they are elected MPs. They have the right to meet the President and they should be allowed. What is the problem with that? Govt is not ready to listen to voices of lakhs of farmers camping at borders," Priyanka Gandhi said.
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