Dehradun

Passage of Farm Bills: Anti-farmer face of Modi exposed: Pritam

PNS

The Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Pritam Singh has said that by passage of three farm bills from parliament during the monsoon session, the anti famer face of the Narendra Modi Government has been exposed. He was addressing a meeting of the Congress leaders and workers at state headquarters of Congress party on Saturday.

The meeting was organised for reviewing the preparations for the proposed Raj Bhawan march of the party on September 28.  He said that the farmers of the country has now realised that Modi is engaging in a conspiracy to lock their land and produce in the coffers of few businessmen.  The PCC president said that the Congress party would not allow such nefarious plans to succeed.  He made an appeal to the party leaders and office bearers to make the proposed Raj Bhawan march on September 28, a historic one. Singh also requested the party workers to follow the social distancing norms for Covid-19 during the march.

Speaking on the occasion, the Vice President of Uttarakhand Congress, Surya Kant Dhasmana said that if the three farm bills passed by both houses of parliament become law after signature of President of India then the farmers of the country would be ruined.  He said that the task of saving the farmers from destruction is now on the shoulders of the Congress party which is an onerous task.  Dhasmana said that in the march all former Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Member of Parliaments, present Rajya Sabha MP, all MLAs, former MLAs, all candidates of Lok Sabha elections of 2019, all candidates of 2017 Vidhan Sabha elections, all office bearers of PCC, members of AICC and PCC, presidents of all frontal organisations of party, district and Mahanagar Congress president and others would take part in the Rajbhawan March on September 28.

The general secretary organisation Vijay Saraswat, Garima Dassauni, Ajay Singh and others took part in the meeting.