Sir — Addressing a crowd of kisan-khet-mazdoor gathered at the Ramlila ground in Delhi on April 19, both Ms Sonia Gandhi and Mr Rahul Gandhi derisively roared to condemn Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the amended land acquisition Bill, saying it was aimed at ‘paying back the debt that he owes to his industrialist friends’, who provided loans of thousands of crores of rupees to the BJP to win the election. But the two Congress leaders concealed how successive Congress Governments had been acquiring farmers’ land from 1951 to 2013 without assessing the social impact and by paying compensation to them at inadequate market prices. The 2013 land acquisition Act was a conspiracy to ensure that, if the Congress failed to come to power in 2014, the new Government would be denied the ease with which Congress Governments had been acquiring the farmers’ land.
The duo failed to give even one example of the Modi Government is favouring industrialists, and did not explain why the UPA Government, dancing to corporate tunes, had treacherously distributed 2G Spectrum and coal blocks to their favourite entities, and deprived the public exchequer of lakhs of crores of rupees. The power-hungry Congress leaders want the economic plight of the farmers to continue so that they can exploit rural India by hollow promises.