Congress president Rahul Gandhi will participate in a protest at Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh where six farmers were killed in alleged police firing last year.
While targeting the centre for not taking proper actions, Gandhi took to twitter and said, “In our country, 35 farmers commit suicide every day. Farmers have been forced to hold 10-day agitation against Central government’s failure to address the agrarian distress. While standing with farmers in their fight for justice, I will address a farmers rally in Mandsaur on June 6.”
According to Congress’s communications in-charge Randeep Surjewala the government’s disinterest towards farmers had led to a nation-wide stir from June 1 to 10.
He said in a statement that, “The Modi government’s uncaring, insensitive, apathetic and thick-skinned attitude to the issues raised by 62 per cent of India’s population – farmers – has precipitated into a nationwide protest by our ‘Annadata’.
“The all-India protest by lakhs of farmers from June 1 to 10 to observe the first anniversary of the Mandsaur shooting is a direct affirmation of the ‘anti-farmer’ policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”
Surjewala added, “Congress President Rahul Gandhi will be in Mandsaur to observe the first death anniversary of the six farmers that were brutally killed in the police shooting, but the BJP-led Madhya Pradesh government in sheer desperation is trying to suppress the protests by using illegal means.
“They are forced to throw their produce on the streets or distribute it for free as they are not getting fair prices for it. They have announced that they will not sell their produce in mandis in cities,” he said.
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