New Delhi: Stepping up its help to the farmers of the country in the wake of sanctioning of three controversial farm laws, the Congress on Friday announced that it would observe October 31 – death anniversary of late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel – as ‘Kisan Adhikar Diwas’.
Party’s state chiefs and activists will conduct ‘satyagraha’ between 10 am and 4 pm at district headquarters to protest and oppose the farm laws issued by the Narendra Modi government.
AICC General Secretary KC Venugopal stated: “During the ‘satyagraha‘, party leaders will highlight the special contribution of independent India’s first Union Home Minister Sardar Patel to the farmers’ cause and their rights, particularly in the context of Bardoli farmers movement and how the Modi government is blatantly attacking what the Sardar fought for, as also undoing the ‘Green Revolution’ ushered in by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi that made India self-sufficient in food.”
Many Congress-drove state governments have been currently in the process of passing laws to invalidate the central farm laws.
The Punjab assembly has already passed a Bill in such manner and Chief Minister Amarinder Singh is planned to meet the President alongside state MLAs to ask him to offer consent to the proposed law passed by the Assembly.
Singh on Thursday reached out to all state MLAs to go with him to meet the President on November 4 to request him to accord quick consent to the Bill.
Prior to this, there have been protests in the past by Congress and other opposition parties against the farm laws.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi himself had participated in the anti-farm reform laws passed by the Centre in which he was seen driving a tractor as part of the protest. Aiming at the centre, Rahul Gandhi stated that farm laws will destroy the present structure of food security and farming in the nation. The most affected by this will be Punjab and Haryana.
Gandhi said at a press conference, “If this structure breaks then in future Punjab will not be able to find a way out.”
