New Delhi: On Tuesday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi criticized the Central government over its stand on dissenting voices in the nation.
The former Congress president took to Twitter and said: “For Modi Govt: Dissenting students are anti-nationals. Concerned citizens are urban Naxals. Migrant laborers are Covid carriers. Rape victims are nobody. Protesting farmers are Khalistani. And Crony capitalists are best friends.”
For Modi Govt:
Dissenting students are anti-nationals.
Concerned citizens are urban naxals.
Migrant labourers are Covid carriers.
Rape victims are nobody.
Protesting farmers are Khalistani.And
Crony capitalists are best friends.— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) December 15, 2020
His attack on the government comes at a time when a huge number of farmers have been protesting for more than fourteen days on the borders of Delhi, demanding the withdrawal of three new agricultural laws.
In the course of recent months, the Congress leader has been critical of the NDA government over its policies regarding different issues including agricultural laws, the economic state of the nation, and the issues of COVID-19 situation.
Prior, criticizing the Union government over the concern of deaths of protesting farmers, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi on Saturday asked how many more ‘sacrifices have to be made’ before the three farm sector laws will be withdrawn by the government.
Farmers have been protesting on various borders of the national capital since November 26 against the three recently enacted agricultural laws-Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020, and the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020.
Passed in September, the three agricultural laws have been extended by the central government as significant reforms in the agriculture sector that will remove the middlemen and permit farmers to sell at anyplace in the nation.
But, the agitating farmers have communicated apprehension that the new laws would make way for removing the safety cushion of Minimum Support Price and do away with the mandi system, leaving them helpless before large corporates.
Additionally, Rahul Gandhi on Friday criticized the government, saying that it wants the income of farmers in the nation to be as low as that earned by those in Bihar. A media report, referred by the former Congress president, said that an agricultural household in Punjab makes the highest in a year, meanwhile, it was lowest in Bihar.
The government has said oppositely and has stated that the legislation will help increase farm income.
