New Delhi, October 11, 2021 (PPI-OT):Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has blamed the Modi government for saving a central minister’s son in the recent killing of eight farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri area of Uttar Pradesh and said that nobody is safe except Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and their “billionaire friends” in the country.
According to Kashmir Media Service, Priyanka said this during a “Kisan Nyay Rally” in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency Varanasi, days after eight people, including four farmers, were killed in the violence. India’s central Minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish has been arrested in connection with the case.
The Congress leader also attacked Prime Minister Modi, saying he travels across the country and abroad but did not have time to talk to farmers protesting over New Delhi’s farm laws, just at a distance of 10 minutes from his residence.
“The country is not the fiefdom of BJP office-bearers, their ministers or the prime minister. This is your country. If you do not become aware and remain entangled in their politics, then neither will you be able to save yourself nor the country,” she asked Congress workers.
About the farmers’ protest, she said, “Farmers are protesting against farm laws for the past 10 months and 600 of them have lost their lives. They are protesting because their farm, income and produce will go to the billionaire friends of Modi through the provisions of these (central) laws.”
“The billionaire friends of Modi purchased apples last year at Rs 88 per kg in Himachal Pradesh and this year, it was purchased at Rs 72 per kg. Everybody is compelled to sell apples at lower price. This situation will prevail in the country when the laws are implemented,” she claimed.
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