Highlight
- Rahul Gandhi said today that he feels he “owes a debt to the people of Punjab.”
- On Sunday, he launched a three-day tractor rally against farm laws.
- “I have learned a lot from the people of Punjabi,” he said.
New Delhi:
Rahul Gandhi said today that he feels he “owes a debt to the people of Punjab” when he addressed the media after concluding his protest against the government’s agricultural laws. The congressional leader also addressed Akali Dal’s criticism of his absence from parliament when the bills were passed.
“Punjabis should see my actions, not my words. I have learned a lot from the Punjabi people, their spirit has taught me a lot. In 1977, when my grandmother (former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi) lost the elections, there was no one else in me. house, only Sikh protection, I owe a debt to the people of Punjab, “said Rahul Gandhi.
He was responding to a media question about his party’s double standards in the center’s bullying states. “Punjabi’s rise movement in the 1980s focused on strengthening the federal structure and your party is blamed for crushing it. Now you blame the center for attacking the federal structure. Why should the Punjabis trust you and your party?” asked a journalist.
On Sunday, the former president of Congress launched a three-day tractor rally against farm laws, which the opposition says will leave farmers at the mercy of companies and deprive them of fair treatment for their produce.
Yesterday, images of him sitting on a tractor in what appeared to be cushioned seats sparked an incitement from Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri of the BJP.
the ” Kheti Bachao Yatra ” is against the “kaala kanoon (dark laws) “which will destroy the existing structure of agriculture in the country and further affect Punjab and Haryana, Gandhi said today.
The journalists asked him to answer Akali Dal’s question: “What were you doing abroad when the bills were passed?”
The congressman replied: “My mother had gone to a medical check-up and my sister could not go with her as some of her staff had Covid. I was there with my mother; I am her son too after all and I have to take care of her. “
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