Rahul Gandhi launched the 3-day tractor rally on Sunday to protest against new farm laws
Rahul Gandhi’s tractor rally to campaign against the center’s agricultural laws was briefly stopped outside Haryana this afternoon by dozens of policemen. The congressional leader, who was moving from Punjab to Haryana for his three-day rally, had said he would not give in “even if he had to wait 500 hours.”
“We have been detained at the Haryana border. I will stay here until they open it. If it takes two hours, then two hours. If it takes six hours, then six, 10, then 10, 24 hours, then 24, 100 hours, 200 hours”. , 500 hours … As long as it takes, I will not move, “Rahul Gandhi told NDTV.
“When they open the border, I will proceed peacefully. Until then I will wait peacefully here,” said the congressional leader, fresh from a similar standoff with the Uttar Pradesh government on his trip to Hathras to meet the family of a woman who died after being attacked by four men.
He also tweeted: “We were stopped at a bridge on the Haryana border. I am not moving and I am happy to wait here. 1 hour, 5 hours, 24 hours, 100 hours, 1000 hours or 5000 hours.”
Police officers were seen holding barricades as congressional workers holding flags and chanting slogans tried to break through.
The Haryana BJP government soon told the group that only 100 people would be allowed in. Three tractors were allowed to pass, including Rahul Gandhi’s. The top leaders of the Punjab Congress, traveling with Rahul Gandhi, left. “”
Rahul Gandhi launched the three-day tractor rally on Sunday to protest against new laws that the opposition says will leave farmers at the mercy of companies and deprive them of fair treatment for their produce.
“The ‘Kheti Bachao Yatra’ is against kaala kanoon (dark laws) that will destroy the existing structure of agriculture in the country and affect Punjab and Haryana more,” Gandhi told media in Punjab a few hours ago.
Today he was going to address two demonstrations in Haryana.
Yesterday, images of Mr. Gandhi sitting on a tractor in what appeared to be cushioned seats triggered an excavation by Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.
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