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  • Priyanka Gandhi targets PM Modi in Mathura, says Lord Krishna will shatter his ego

    Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: Reiterating her rhetoric against the Central government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra claimed that the land of Lord Krishna will shatter the haughtiness and ego of the BJP government. She was addressing a Kisan Panchayat in Mathura district on Tuesday. 

    The Congress leader said that the way Lord Krishna brought the ego of Lord Indra, the Rain God down, by holding the holy Govardhan Parvat on his little finger and protecting the people under it, PM Modi’s ego will also be shattered here for turning a blind eye to the issues plaguing the farmers and not repealing the three farm laws.

    In the same vein, the Congress leader cautioned the people of Mathura asking them to protect Govardhan Parvat from the BJP government, which was on a spree to sell everything. “Save the pure and holy Govardhan Parvat from BJP government or else it will also sell it to the corporate houses,” said Priyanka.

    “This government cut off electricity, shut the water supply, beat and tortured the farmers, but did not listen to them,” the Congress general secretary said.

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    She said that even after 90 days of relentless protests on the borders of the national capital, the PM did not find it necessary to come and talk to the farmers, nor did he send anyone. “When the ego of a politician becomes supreme, then he loses touch with people,” Gandhi added.

    She also raised the issue of cane dues, rising prices of fuel and power tariffs all of which were hurting the farmers’ interests. She said that 215 farmers were martyred during the protest against the farm laws. “This government said it would double your incomes, but nothing has changed since 2019,” she told her listeners.

    During the speech, a section of the people raised slogans at the panchayat, seeking her intervention in a rape case in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur. The leader dismounted from the stage to hear the appeals of the people.

    Mathura, where Jats make a considerable chunk of the population, was the fourth destination for the Congress leader to address a Kisan panchayat. Prior to it, she had addressed farmers in Saharanpur, Bijnor and Muzaffarnagar. The meeting held on Tuesday was rescheduled due to the demise of captain Satish Sharma on February 19. 

  • Govt insulted farmers, ministers called them traitors: Priyanka Gandhi at kisan panchayat

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: Accusing the Narendra Modi-led Union government of insulting farmers, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday said the men who protect the country’s borders are sons of farmers.

    Addressing a “kisan panchayat” in UP’s Bijnore, the Congress leader said farmers were ridiculed in Parliament and dubbed as traitors by ministers.

    “The farmer who is standing on your door, his son is standing at the border of the country. The farmer whom you are insulting, his son is safeguarding the country’s border,” she said referring to the protest against the farm laws at the Delhi borders.

    “They were given a new name ‘aandolanjivi’ and ‘parijivi’. All of you know the meaning of ‘parijivi’. Your ministers called the farmers traitors,” she said.

    Priyanka also criticised Haryana minister J P Dalal, who had stoked a controversy on Saturday saying the farmers who died during the course of the agitation would have passed away even if they had stayed back home.

    Stressing that “martyrdom” is a significant thing, she said, “No one has the right to raise a finger on a person who has attained martyrdom while protesting for his rights, be it the prime minister or any other minister.

    ” Attacking the prime minister, the Congress leader alleged that the central laws are not for farmers but for his capitalist friends.

    “The country is not blind and every citizen is watching as to what is happening in the country for the past seven years. His capitalist friends are running the entire media, his capitalist friends run his elections,” she said.

    “All big industries set up in the past 75 years have been sold and plans are afoot to sell the unsold ones. What will such a government do for you,” Priyanka Gandhi Vadra asked.

    Further lashing out at the PM, she said, “The prime minister can go to the US, hold a gathering for Trump (ex-US president), visit China and Pakistan, and there is no country which he has not visited.

    And you could not go two-three kilometres from your house and meet the farmers who are saying please come and talk to us.

    ” “There are two types of leaders.

    There are some leaders who have a lot of arrogance and they forget as to who gave them power.

    In the history of the country, whenever a leader has become arrogant, the people of the country have taught him a lesson, and he feels ashamed.

    Then he understands what his religion is. His religion is not to divide people but to work for their development.

    Top priority should be given to the public and you (leader) should be behind them,” she said.

    After the Congress leader ended her speech, a two-minute silence was observed for the farmers who died during the course of the protest.

    The farmer unions protesting against the centre’s farm laws have claimed that over 200 farmers have died during the course of the agitation that started in November last year.

  • Priyanka Gandhi to attend ‘kisan panchayat’ in Saharanpur on Wednesday: Uttar Pradesh Congress

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: Amid the agitation against the Centre’s agri laws, the Congress will on Wednesday launch its outreach campaign in politically crucial Uttar Pradesh with party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attending a ‘kisan panchayat’ in Saharanpur.

    Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will be participating in the kisan panchayat at Chilkhana under the party’s ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ campaign that will be started in 27 districts of the state, media convenor of UP Congress Lalan Kumar said.

    He said that several prominent party leaders will be participating in the 10-day programme.

    The campaign is starting in 27 districts including Saharanpur, Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat, Meerut, Bijnor, Hapur, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Hathras, Mathura, Agra, Firozabad, Budaun, Bareilly, Rampur, Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheir, Sitapur and Hardoi, Lalan said.

    The Congress has been vociferously supporting the farmers’ agitating against the new agri laws and is hoping to make inroads in the state where assembly elections are due next year.