The AICC general secretary is in Allahabad today, where she also visited Anand Bhavan, the Nehru-Gandhi family home that has been turned into a museum.
To mark “Mauni Amavasya” today, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra took a dip at the Sangam or holy confluence of rivers in Uttar Pradesh.
The AICC general secretary is in Allahabad today, where she also visited Anand Bhavan, the Nehru-Gandhi family home that has been turned into a museum on the freedom movement.
The Congress leader, in images doing rounds on social media, was seen taking a dip and offering prayers, surrounded by aides. She was also seen on the boat back to the banks; she was seen taking the oars and rowing for a bit.
As per news agency PTI, she was with her daughter Miraya and Congress MLA Aradhana Misra.
Earlier on Wednesday, she attended a large farmers’ meeting in Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur, where she said that 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 was held anyway.
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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