Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday demanded from the Modi government to convene a special session of the Parliament and withdraw the three farm laws that are the heart of protests. Speaking to reporters after meeting President Ram Nath Kovind with two-crore signatures against the farm laws, Rahul accused PM Narendra Modi and the BJP of not listening to the farmers demand and making money for the crony capitalists.
"I told the President that these farm laws are anti-farmer. The country has seen that farmers have stood up against these laws," he said.
"I want to tell the PM that these farmers are not going to go back home until these farm laws are repealed. Govt should convene a joint session of Parliament and take back these laws. Opposition parties stand with farmers & labourers," Rahul added.
"Whoever will try to stand against him will be called terrorist - be it farmers, labourers and even Mohan Bhagwat," the Congress leader opined.
Earlier today, Rahul Gandhi, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury meet President Kovind and submitted a memorandum containing two-crore signatures seeking withdrawal of farm laws.
Meanwhile, scores of Congress leaders are staging a sit-in protest outside party office here after they were prevented from marching to Rashtrapati Bhawan against the farm laws. According to news agency ANI, senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and others were taken into preventive custody by the police.
"We are living in democracy and they are elected MPs. They have the right to meet the President and they should be allowed. What is problem with that? Government is not ready to listen to voices of lakhs of farmers camping at borders," Priyanka told reporters after being stopped by police.
"Sometimes they say we are so weak that we don't qualify as Opposition and sometimes, they say that we are so powerful that we have made lakhs of farmers camp at the border for a month. They should first decide what we are," she added.
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