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PM threatens farmers but can’t stand up to China: Rahul

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Jaipur, Feb 12: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of trying to clear the path for his “friends” through the three new agri-marketing laws, saying he is threatening farmers when he cannot stand up to China.
Addressing farmer “mahapanchayats” in Pilibanga town of Rajasthan’s Hanumangarh district, he claimed the laws will impact 40 per cent of Indians.
He addressed another Congress-organised farmers’ meeting in Sri Ganganagar’s Padampur town on the first day of his two-day Rajasthan trip. Instead of chairs, cots were placed on the dais for party leaders to sit upon in Hanumangarh. In Sri Ganganagar, there were rustic “mudda” chairs on the dais. Gandhi said the new laws do not affect just the farmers, adding his party will ensure that they are withdrawn. Even the British couldn’t stand before farmers, he said.
He said Modi should first withdraw the laws if he wants to talk to farmers. Forty percent of people in the country who include farmers, traders and labourers will be hit by the implementation of the laws, the Congress leader claimed.
“They are not just farmers; they are traders, labourers, traders, adhatiyas (middlemen). This is the business of Bharat Mata that feeds the nation,” he said in Sri Ganganagar.
“The objective of the laws is to shift the business of 40 percent people to two or three people. What will happen to those who sell grain, fruit and vegetables on roads if only one company starts selling grain, fruit or vegetables of the entire country?” he said.
Gandhi said the new farm laws are another blow to the people of the country after demonetisation and the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST).
“Earlier, it was the demonetisation and I had said it was not a fight against black money, and the backbone of the country was being broken. But people didn’t understand this at that time,” Gandhi said.
The Congress leader claimed that with the implementation of the new laws, government mandis will shut down and big businessmen will monopolise the purchase of farm produce. (PTI)

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