New Delhi: Delhi Police has taken Priyanka Gandhi and other Congress leaders into custody. They were taking out a march to Rashtrapati Bhavan to submit to the President a memorandum containing 2 crore signatures seeking his intervention in farm laws issue.
Priyanka Gandhi said, “Any dissent against this govt is classified as having elements of terror. We are undertaking this march to voice our support for the farmers,” says Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi.”
She further said, “It is a sin to use the kind of names they (BJP leaders & supporters) used for farmers. If Govt is calling them anti-nationals, then the govt is a sinner: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi.”
Govt is calling farmers anti-nationals, then the govt is a sinner, says @priyankagandhi
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“We’re living in democracy & they are elected MPs. They have the right to meet the President & they should be allowed. What is problem with that? Govt is not ready to listen to voices of lakhs of farmers camping at borders,” she further said.
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Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Ghulam Nabi Azad & Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury visited Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Gandhi said, “I told the President that these farm laws are anti-farmer. The country has seen that farmers have stood up against these laws”.