Monday, 23 December 2024
Monday, 23 December 2024
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses during farmers meeting at Krushi Utpanna Bazar Samiti, in Nashik. Gandhi said the Opposition INDIA alliance, if voted to power, will be the 'voice of farmers' and frame policies to protect them.
A farmer knits as she attends the 'Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat', at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi. The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of farmer organisations that spearheaded a protest at Delhi's borders in 2020-21 against three agriculture laws that have since been repealed, has said a resolution will be passed at the 'Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat' to 'intensify the fight' against the Centre's policies.
Rahul Gandhi addressed a farmers' rally at Chandwad in Maharashtra's Nashik district along with NCP (SP) head Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut, as part of the Congress' ongoing 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra'. He promised loan waiver for farmers, restructuring of crop insurance scheme to benefit cultivators, to protect crop prices in formulation of export import policies and to make efforts to exclude agriculture from GST and work on only one tax.
Members of various farmer unions gather at Ramlila Maidan for 'Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat', in New Delhi. The farmers raised slogans against the Union government at the protest venue.
NCP (SP) leader Sharad Pawar accused the central government of being apathetic to the plight of farmers and the agriculture sector. Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is with Rahul Gandhi in the struggle to fight for people's causes.
Activist Medha Patkar, in saree, during the 'Kisan Mazdoor Mahapanchayat', at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi. The Delhi Police has given permission to the farmers to hold the event on the condition that there would not be a gathering of more than 5,000 people.
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Jairam Ramesh with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)(Sharadchandra Pawar) President Sharad Pawar during Kisan Mahapanchayat, in Nashik. The Lok Sabha member from Wayanad also reiterated the Congress' promise of a legal guarantee to minimum support price (MSP) as per the Swaminathan committee report.
Three border points of the capital -- Singhu, Tikri and Ghazipur -- have been witnessing a heavy deployment of paramilitary personnel in view of a proposed farmers' march to Delhi. Hundreds of farmers are sitting at the border points of Punjab and Haryana for the last one month.
