Govt Will Have To Listen To Protesting Farmers: Rahul Gandhi
Mumbai: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday that the government would have to listen to farmers opposing the new agricultural laws.
Gandhi posted a video of protesting farmers and wrote: “Mitti ka kann kann goonj raha hai, sarkar ko sun na padega—The government will have to listen (to the farmers).”
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Earlier, Rahul Gandhi, Ghulam Nabi Azad, and Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary visited Rashtrapati Bhavan on 24 December.
Rahul Gandhi submitted to President Ram Nath Kovind a memorandum of two crore signatures to repeal farm laws, against which farmers have been protesting on Delhi’s borders since last month.
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Gandhi said, “I told the President that these agricultural laws are anti-farmer. The country has seen that farmers have stood up against these laws.”
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Farmers have been protesting against the Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020 on the borders of Delhi since 26 November; Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Agricultural Services Act, 2020; And Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
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