NEW DELHI: Old Congress President Rahul gandhi on Thursday he said the government should convene a joint session of Parliament and withdraw the new agricultural laws.
“I want to tell the prime minister that these farmers will not come home until these farm laws are repealed. The opposition parties support farmers and workers,” Rahul Gandhi told reporters outside Rashtrapati Bhavan.
If the Prime Minister does not withdraw these laws, the country will suffer, he said.
Rahul claimed that the way the laws were passed without any discussion, consultation, needs to be withdrawn.
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“It is an assault on the idea of India. The government is preventing our MPs from moving out of our office … There is no democracy in India, it is only in the imagination, not in reality,” Rahul accused.
The congressional leader further alleged that only three or four people run the system and said the party is fighting this.
“Prime Minister Modi is making money for crony capitalists. Anyone who tries to stand up to him will be called a terrorist, whether they are farmers, workers and even Mohan bhagwat (Head of RSS), “he said.
Rahul Gandhi, leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury met with President Ram Nath Kovind and demanded the withdrawal of the three agricultural laws.
“The three people went to the president, but we brought the voice of the farmers to the president, by bringing two million farmers’ signatures,” he said, adding that “farmers are suffering and they are also dying, the prime minister will have to listen to them. ”
“We told the president that the laws are against farmers and that farmers and workers will suffer because of them. The government said that these laws are in favor of farmers, but the country is seeing that farmers are against them. laws “, Rahul Gandhi. said.
On Thursday, Congress held a loud protest in front of the Congress headquarters here after they were prevented from marching towards Rashtrapati Bhawan.
Congress leaders Priyanka gandhi Vadra and MPs and party leaders organized a protest sit-in in front of his office and were detained by Delhi police for violating prohibition orders.
Congress had planned a protest march from the party’s office on Akbar Road to Rashtrapati Bhawan, where Congress leaders were to meet with President Ram Nath Kovind and deliver a memorandum signed by two crore farmers.
However, the Delhi police enforced section 144 of the CrPC around Rashtrapati Bhawan, including the Congressional office, after which the protesting congressional leaders were arrested and taken to the Mandir Marg police station.
Any dissent against the Center being classified as having elements of terror: Priyanka Gandhi
Any dissent against this government is classified as elements of terror, Congressional leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Thursday, criticizing the central government.
“We live in a democracy and they are elected deputies. They have the right to meet with the president and they should be allowed. What’s the problem with that? The government is not willing to listen to the voices of thousands of peasants camping on the borders.” . “Priyanka said after congressional leaders were prevented from marching to Rashtrapati Bhavan.
“Sometimes they say that we are so weak that we do not qualify as opposition and sometimes they say that we are so powerful that we have done hundreds of thousands of farmer camps on the (Delhi) border for a month. They should first decide what we are. “, said.
Farmers have been protesting at the Delhi borders since November 26 against the new agricultural laws.
(With inputs from agencies)
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