NEW DELHI: BJP challenged on Thursday Rahul gandhi for an open debate on what Congress did for the well-being of farmers when it was in power and what the Modi government has done for them, as it rejected his accusations against the Center as “unfounded and illogical.”
Union minister Prakash Javadekar He accused Congress of ignoring the interests of farmers and keeping them in poverty to ensure cheap grain prices, and claimed that the Modi government empowered them by implementing the Swaminathan commission report to give them a remunerative price through the MSP.
The BJP leader noted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will transfer 18 billion rupees to farmers of 9 million rupees on Friday, bringing to a total of 1.20 crore lakh crore the amount of money he has directly credited. in your bank accounts so far.
“This is just the beginning. It will continue for 10 years and the total plan is Rs seven lakh crore,” he said, noting that all Congress did when he was in power was give up his loans worth Rs 53,000 crore. . .
This money was not given to farmers but to banks against their loans, he noted.
“I challenge Congress and Rahul Gandhi to open debate. I will show how Congress always ignored the interests of farmers and how Modi empowered them. Farmers always demanded a remunerative price for their products, but Congress never did,” he added.
The opposition party has been “unmasked” as has become clear and he and his allies have been using farmers’ shoulders to fire on the government and have been “instigating” them, he alleged.
Gandhi had claimed earlier that day that “there is no democracy in India” and it exists “only in the imagination.” A congressional delegation met with the president Ram Nath Kovind and demanded a joint session of Parliament to repeal the Center’s three agricultural laws.
“The farmers (who are camping on the Delhi borders) would not return until these laws are repealed. The government should convene a joint session of Parliament and repeal these laws,” he told reporters after meeting with the president.
Javadekar played down Gandhi’s demand for a session, saying that when Parliament is in session, members of Congress obstruct and do not participate in a debate.
He said the government’s doors are always open for dialogue with agitated farmers, and he is confident that a solution will emerge.
At a briefing at the BJP headquarters, the party spokesman Sudhanshu Trivedi he attacked Gandhi as “perpetually young, disenchanted, frustrated and agitated” and said his “baseless and illogical” attack on the government was in keeping with his nature.
In a counterattack against the leader of Congress for his accusation that the government invariably labels its critics as “anti-national”, Trivedi said the opposition party had brought a case of “treason” against former Prime Minister Charan Singh, a prominent leader. of the farmers, and imprisoned him too. BJP stalwart and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee he had also been charged with a similar accusation by the party, he said.
He asked why Gandhi is not campaigning for farmers in Kerala since the state where he is a deputy does not have the Law of the Committee for the Marketing of Agricultural Products.
“This cannot be accepted, what is good in Kerala is bad in Delhi,” he said, noting that food processing giants such as Nestle and Pepsico have been present in Punjab for many years.
Farmers in other states should also benefit from similar private interventions in the farm market, he said.
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