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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has 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.
अन्नदाता किसान को बार-बार क्यों न्याय के लिए दिल्ली की दहलीज़ पर आना पड़ रहा है, @narendramodi जी ?
आज जब आप हरियाणा व राजस्थान के दौरे पर होंगे, तो उम्मीद है कि अन्नदाता किसान की जद्दोजहद समझने की कोशिश ज़रूर करेंगे।
किसान न्याय की गुहार इसलिए लगा रहे हैं , क्योंकि बार-बार… pic.twitter.com/gsiDitiWsn
— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) December 9, 2024
“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.
