Congress won’t let corporates monopolise farming: Rahul Gandhi

Raj Sadosh

Abohar/Sriganganagar, February 12

Congress former president Rahul Gandhi today said his party would thwart the NDA government’s plans to make people of the country slave to a few corporates by implementing the three farm laws.

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Addressing ‘kisan mahapanchayats’ at Padampur in Sriganganagar and in Hanumangarh, he reiterated what he said in Parliament yesterday. Rahul said 64 per cent of the populace lived in the rural areas, and millions of farmers, labourers and small businessmen were connected to agriculture business. The Congress had been fighting to safeguard their rights, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi had conspired to let a few corporates monopolise the agriculture business, he alleged.

“This will ruin roadside vendors also as the contentious laws promotes uncontrolled hoarding, black-marketing in agriculture produce and allied products. Come what may, the Congress will not allow this to happen,” he said.

He slammed the central government for implementing “anti-people” policies, highlighting demonetization and GST. He said even laws enacted in the Covid-19 pandemic period were part of the BJP’s plan to benefit a few big business houses that enjoyed Rs 1.5 lakh crore relief in bank dues but migrants were denied even free and comfortable travel facility to reach their native places after the lockdown was announced in March last year.

Rahul was accompanied by Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot and former Rajasthan Congress president Sachin Pilot. Interestingly the sound-system for the rally was arranged from Dhuri town of Sangrur district in Punjab.