'Kheti Bachao Yatra' live updates: Rahul Gandhi to address farmers, party workers shortly

'Kheti Bachao Yatra' live updates: Rahul Gandhi to address farmers, party workers shortly

'Kheti Bachao Yatra' live updates: Rahul Gandhi to address farmers, party workers shortly

Chandigarh : Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday termed the contentious agriculture laws as an attack on India's federal structure and diversity.

 

"Punjab needed Green Revolution...India needed Green revolution. Punjab's farmers provided grains to the entire country. By giving Punjab less MSP, 80,000 crore people were fed. But today the government is trying to kill the farmer and his income," he said.

Sidhu was speaking at a tractor rally on Sunday to protest against the contentious farm laws.

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Punjab used to earn Rs 5,000 crore from Mandis. This government will ruin the livelihoods of 30,000 arthiyas and 5,00,000 labourers: Sidhu

In the absence of Mandis, farmers will have to work as labourers

They are imposing America's failed system on us. Those countries had industrialization. We do not. How will we generate employment opportunities?: Sidhu

Ambani and Adani will come with an army of lawyers. How will they negotiate with a farmer who has a 2-acre farm?: Sidhu

'Kheti Bachao Yatra' live updates: Rahul Gandhi to address farmers, party workers shortly

'Kheti Bachao Yatra' live updates: Rahul Gandhi to address farmers, party workers shortly

This country is being run by capitalists. When you bail out farmers its called subsidies, when you give money to corporates, its called its called incentives: Sidhu

We will not let Ambani, Adani enter Punjab

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will hold tractor rallies in Punjab and Haryana from October 4-6. Earlier, Gandhi was scheduled to hold tractor rallies from October 3-5, the party said. However, the rest of his itinerary will remain the same.

“Change in @Rahul Gandhi tractor rallies programme; rescheduled to October 4, 5, 6. Rest (itinerary) remains the same,” Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s media advisor, Raveen Thukral, tweeted.

Singh, state Congress president Sunil Jakhar, Congress' Punjab in-charge Harish Rawat, and all state ministers and party MLAs will join the protests, “to give voice to the angst and pain of the farmers, whose livelihood and future has been put at stake by the central legislations”.

 

A spokesperson of Punjab Congress had said on Thursday that the tractor rallies were expected to be supported by farmers’ organisations and will cover more than 50 km over three days.

The rallies will be conducted amid strict COVID-19 protocols, the spokesperson had said.

Gandhi is likely to address rallies at Kaithal and Pipli in Kurukshetra district of Haryana on October 6 instead of October 5, following which he will return to Delhi.

Farmers have expressed apprehension that the Centre’s farm reforms would pave a way for the dismantling of the minimum support price system, leaving them at the “mercy” of big companies.

Parliament had last week passed the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, 2020; the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill; and the Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill. — with PTI