‘Farm laws will be thrown in wastepaper basket the day Cong forms govt at Centre’

Moga/Raikot (Punjab): Vowing to scrap the new farm laws once the Congress returns to power at the Centre, Rahul Gandhi on Sunday alleged that the BJP-led government was acting at the behest of select corporates to “destroy farmers.
Leading a tractor rally in Punjab against the farm legislations, the Congress leader launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and questioned the need for bringing in the new laws at the time of the coronavirus pandemic. Their target is to end the MSP and food procurement system. They know the day that happens, farmers of Punjab and Haryana will be finished, he said.
But the Congress will not allow this to happen, we stand firmly behind you. We will not back down an inch, Gandhi said while addressing a gathering at Badni Kalan here before a tractor rally through the districts of Moga and Ludhiana.
The Congress, which is in power in Punjab, is holding tractor rallies from October 4 to October 6 across the state in protest against the Centre’s new farm laws.
Gandhi alleged that the Modi government was acting like a puppet”. “Do you (people) remember about Kathputli? There used to be a puppet show. Somebody else used to pull puppet’s strings…. This is not the Modi government, this is the government of Adani and Ambani,” he alleged.
The former Congress president said if the laws were meant for farmers, then why were they agitating against these new legislations, and referred to the Congress’ opposition to the Land Acquisition Bill.
I guarantee the day the Congress government is formed (at the Centre), these three black laws would be scrapped and thrown in the wastepaper basket, he said. (PTI)