Modi govt ‘betrayed’ farmers: Kharge

NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday, 9 December, said farmers are pleading for justice because the Modi government "betrayed them again and again", and asserted that the tillers' right to raise their voice should not be taken away from them.

Kharge asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi as to why farmers have to come to Delhi's doorstep again and again for justice.

"Today, when you will be on a tour to Haryana and Rajasthan, I hope that you will definitely try to understand the struggle of the farmer who provides food to the nation. Farmers are pleading for justice because your government has betrayed them again and again," Kharge said in a post in Hindi on X.

"The betrayal of not doubling farmers' income by 2022, the betrayal of not implementing Input Cost + 50% MSP as per the Swaminathan report, and the betrayal of forming a committee to give legal status to MSP but not acting on it," he said, slamming the Modi government.

Kharge claimed that there was neither adequate procurement nor was it being done at a fair price.

"On top of that, farmers are troubled by the acute shortage of DAP and fertilizers!" he said.

"You laid a net of barbed wire on the path of the farmers, again turned the Delhi border into a cantonment, tried to stop their peaceful march with tear gas. Before this, you fired rubber bullets at them and showered lathis on them," he said.

"Not only this, in Parliament, you (PM Modi) yourself made derogatory remarks on farmers calling them 'andolanjeevi' and 'parjeevi' and did not even consider it appropriate to observe two minutes of silence in memory of 750 martyred farmers," Kharge alleged.

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