Congressional Leader Rahul Gandhi continued his attack on the Center and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on agricultural bills recently passed by Parliament. On Twitter on Thursday, Gandhi said the Modi government is not talking to farmers and is instead engaged in image-building exercises.
“Modi government priorities: Instead of talking to farmers and workers to solve their problems, they (Modi government) are committed to public relations,” he said in a tweet posted in Hindi. The congressional leader also attached a screenshot of a news article.
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The attack was an excavation on Prime Minister Modi, who participated in the Fit India Dialogue 2020 earlier in the day and interacted with fitness icons. The event was organized to commemorate the first anniversary of the Fit India Movement.
Bollywood actor and model Milind Soman, cricketer Virat Kohli, and nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar were among the participants. During the online dialogue, PM Modi also released the ‘Fit India Age Appropriate Fitness Protocols’.
Congress has been attacking the government since the bills passed, which it calls “anti-farmer.” The party has also launched a pan-Indian campaign against legislation that awaits the approval of the president.
Congressional leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, representing a handful of opposition parties, met with President Ram Nath Kovind and urged him not to sign the bills.
Some farmers in Punjab and Haryana are also protesting against the agrarian bills passed by Parliament. They have organized a three-day ‘rail roko’ agitation starting Thursday.
Another farmer organization has called for a statewide ‘bandh’ on September 25 in Punjab.
Controversial Bills – Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020, Farmers’ Empowerment and Protection, Price Guarantee and Agricultural Services Bill, 2020, and Agricultural Trade and Trade Bill (Promotion and Facilitation), 2020 – were approved by Parliament despite uproar and strong protest from opposition parties.
These parties allege that the government had “undermined rules, regulations and procedures” by pushing the bill through both houses of Parliament.
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