Team News Riveting
New Delhi, December 27
If the records of the Lok Sabha proceedings are taken in account, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has startlingly taken an alleged “U” turn on the new farm laws.
The Congress Vice President had launched an attack on the Narendra Modi government on the issue that he had once advocated for in the Lok Sabha.
A video going viral reportedly of the proceedings in which Rahul Gandhi said that the farmers should be allowed to sell their produce directly to the companies. It contradicts his current stand on the new farm laws where he has been sternly slamming the Centre and demanding revoking the “anti-farm laws.”
The Congress leader however could not be contacted for his version on the issue.
Gandhi’s speech in the Lok Sabha in 2015, when he was an MP from Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi, is trending on the social media with people trolling him for his “contradictory” statement. Ironically, he did not take any initiative for the same while Congress was in power for 10 years.
“A few years ago when I was in Uttar Pradesh, a farmer came to me and asked to explain something…he said that the farmers sell potatoes for Rs 2 per kilogram but when their children buy a packet of chips, that costs Rs 10 consisting of one potato. The farmer asked me to explain what kind of magic is it?” said Gandhi in his speech in the Lok Sabha.
“I asked the farmer what do they think is the reason behind it. To this he said, if the farmers were able to sell their produce directly to the factories, which are far away from them, then the middlemen will not be benefitted and the farmers will get the entire amount,” he added.
The Congress leader further asserted that this is the “thinking” behind the food park. “This is a fight of the farmers and labourers from a few districts of Amethi and Uttar Pradesh,” he added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also assured every farmer that the system of providing minimum support price (MSP) will continue as earlier.
Citing government data from 2013, the Congress leader tweeted: “The farmers of the country want their income to be on par with farmers of Punjab. The Modi government wants the income of all the farmers of the country to be as much as the farmers of Bihar.”
The Congress leader is backing the farmers protesting since last month at the Singhu border against the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.
They are demanding the repeal of the three laws.
