The Congress on Saturday extended support to the “Bharat Bandh” call given by farmer unions against the Centre’s three agri laws and demanded that discussions be initiated with the protesters.
Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh said the Congress and all its workers will support the “peaceful Bharat Bandh on September 27, called by farmer unions and farmers”.
“We demand that the due process of discussion with the farmers should be initiated because they are sitting on the borders of Delhi for last more than nine months. We demand that these three black laws, which were imposed without any consultation, should be taken back,” he said at AICC Press conference.
The Congress leader also demanded that the MSP should be given as a legal right to every farmer “as they do not want only ‘jumlas’ (rhetoric)” and referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise to double the farmers’ income by 2022.