BJP’s Smriti Irani on Tuesday once again criticized Rahul Gandhi for his protests.
New Delhi:
Attacking Congressional Leader Rahul Gandhi for his protest marches against the three recently passed farm laws, BJP leader and Union Minister Smriti Irani said on Tuesday that he was pulling out his yatras not for farmers but in support of “intermediaries who plundered the country.”
Attacking the former head of Congress for his comments that if his party is elected to power he would abolish the agricultural laws, Irani said: “I believe that Rahul Gandhi lives in a dream world where he believes he is a king.”
When Mr. Gandhi objects to the agricultural laws, Ms. Irani asked, “Do you also object to the proposal that farmers will receive a payment within three days after the sale of their products, which are free from sell them anywhere in the country and that their land cannot be used in the recovery process in any case. “
“The fact is that Rahul Gandhi is in the congressional yatra in support of the intermediaries, not the farmers and does not amaze anyone in the country,” he told reporters here, adding that the Gandhi family never stood up for the oppressed. , but always to the “intermediaries”.
“The politics of his party and especially that of his family always depended on the intermediaries who looted the country’s coffers,” he alleged.
She categorically said that acquisitions under the MSP regime are currently underway across the country.
Comparing rice purchases during the UPA and NDA governments, he said that in 2013-14, when the UPA was in power, 40 billion rupees was spent on this, which increased to 1.4 crore rupees. in 2019-20 (under NDA).
He said there are many examples where Congress has failed not just farmers, but the entire agricultural landscape of the country.
Gandhi has been holding protest marches for the past three days against the new agricultural laws. He had started his ‘Kheti Bachao’ yatra from the Moga district on Sunday.
To cap off his three days of protests, Gandhi said in Haryana and Punjab on Tuesday that his party will not allow the Center to jeopardize India’s food security. He reiterated that the agricultural laws will be repealed if his party comes to power.
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