NEW DELHI: A day after stones were allegedly thrown at the peasant leader’s convoy Rakesh tikait in the Alwar district of Rajasthan, leader of the Congress Rahul gandhi on Saturday he said “we will face the Sangh together” and we will not stop until agricultural laws are repealed.
The police in the stone throwing case have arrested a student leader, who the Union Bhartiya Kisan claimed, belonged to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, the student wing of the BJP, and accused the party of being behind the attack.
“Their Sangh teaches them to attack, while non-violent satyagraha makes farmers brave,” Gandhi said in a Hindi tweet.
“We will face Sangh together, we will only stop until the three anti-agriculture and anti-national laws are repealed,” the former head of Congress said.
Hundreds of farmers have been camping at the Delhi border points at Ghazipur, Singhu and Tikri since November last year demanding that the Center repeal the three contentious agricultural laws.
Enacted in September, the three agricultural laws have been projected by the Center as major reforms in the agricultural sector that will eliminate middlemen and allow farmers to sell their products anywhere in the country.
The protesting farmers, on the other hand, have expressed their apprehension that the new laws would pave the way to remove the Minimum Livelihood Price (MSP) safety cushion and end the “mandi” (wholesale market) system, leaving them in the mercy of large corporations.
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