In the wake of the ongoing farmers’ agitation, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi took on the Narendra Modi government on Tuesday and said that the country is being run by 4-5 industrialists and after power ports and telecom, the government has decided to sell agriculture to private hands and push the country towards crony capitalism. He added that the biggest business in terms of value is agriculture in this country and the Modi government has passed these three laws designed to destroy the agriculture sectors and farmers related to it.
Before the start of the Rahul Gandhi conference, BJP president J.P. Nadda had posted a series of tweets asking questions to Rahul Gandhi about the UPA’s failure to help farmers and also failing to implement the Swaminathan committee report. When reporters asked Gandhi about those questions, he took a jibe at Nadda and said that he is not my professor that I should answer him. He said that the government can’t do anything to him as he was absolutely clean and I don’t need a certificate because the nation knows that “I was there at the time of Bhata Parsol, land acquisition”. He asked where Nadda was when all this took place.
On a question on the Supreme Court’s stand, Rahul Gandhi said that “though I will not comment on it, but the country knows what actually happened”. RahulGandhi asserted that the Modi government has to take back the three farm laws and said that farmers are wiser than the Prime Minister.