Ms Gandhi Vadra also said that when Congress comes back to power, the three farm laws introduced by the centre will be scrapped.
Congress’s Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, at a farmers’ meeting in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur today, said farmers have made the country “atmanirbhar” (self-reliant) but they are being made to suffer through the new farm laws.
Though prohibitory orders were passed banning large gatherings by the district administration, the kisan mahapanchayat is still being held.
Ms Gandhi Vadra, who is attending the mahapanchayat as part of the party’s 10-day “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan” campaign that will be held in 27 districts of the state, said the government does not understand farmers or what they stand for.
“They (the government) call the farmers anti-national, but in reality, it is them who are anti-national,” she said.
“They call farmers agitators, extremists, and terrorists. They doubt the farmers, but the heart of the farmer can never be against the nation. The farmer’s heart, his work itself is for the land. Farmers till the land, work day and night on the land. How can they betray the nation?” the AICC general secretary added.
“The Prime Minister had time to go to Pakistan, he had time to go to China, but he did not have time to visit the bordering areas of his own constituency and meet farmers,” the Congress leader said, stressing that it was the farmers who had voted for him.
“The Prime Minister himself insults farmers, that too in Parliament, by calling them ‘andolanjeevi‘ (one who lives for agitation),” she said, referring to the term used by PM Modi in context of the protests.
Ms Gandhi Vadra also said that when Congress comes back to power, the three farm laws introduced by the centre will be scrapped.
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