Demanding loan waiver for the farmers of Gujarat, the Congress workers took to streets and highways and staged ‘Rasta Roko’ agitation in different parts of the State on Friday.
In order to maintain law & order situation in the State, police was forced to detain a large number of Congress workers across the State. Gujarat Congress in its official press-release claimed that more than 4,000 elected representatives of the party and its workers were detained by the police during the day.
“Since morning, Congress MlAs, office-bearers of Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC), party’s elected panchayat members and workers were on the street against BJP-ruled Government’s anti-farmer policy. Apart from loan waiver, they raised issues including minimum support prices for agriculture produce, water and electricity at cheaper rates and seeds and fertilizers at subsidies rates,” said GPCC spokesman Manish Doshi.
Gujarat Pradesh Kishan Congress president Virji Thummar and Amreli MlA Paresh Dhanani alleged that the farmers do not get even eight hours of power supply.