Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi will be visiting Rajasthan next week to participate in the farmers’ agitation against the three farm laws and to support their demands to repeal the laws, a party leader said on Saturday.
Rajasthan Congress in-charge Ajay Maken tweeted: “To fight for the interests of farmers and to raise the voice of farmers and to put pressure on the government to repeal the three farm laws Rahul Gandhi will be visiting Rajasthan on February 12 and 13.”
Earlier in the day, Rahul Gandhi had extended support to the farmers’ three-hour ‘chakka jam’ (road blockade) across the country against the farm laws. Rahul has been vocal on the farmers’ issue and has criticised the government several times.
Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat too will visit the Ghazipur border protest site on Sunday evening to lend his support to the farmers. Leaders of various parties are also visiting the Ghazipur border to show their solidarity with the farmers protesting there.
Senior Congress leader Rawat will sit on a protest against the farm laws and bring soil, water and flowers from his ancestral village in Almora.
After the violence on Republic Day, the Delhi Police has placed barbed wire on the streets. Rawat would plant flowers at the border and lend his support to the farmers.
On 28 January, after the emotional appeal made by Rakesh Tikait, the national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), farmers from different states across the country had brought water due to which the agitation has received a boost.