Sonia Gandhi posted a video message on Gandhi Jayanti, Mahatma Gandhi’s 151st birthday
New Delhi:
Calling Mahatma Gandhi the “biggest sympathizer” of farmers, workers and the working class, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today expressed confidence that the agitation against three recently enacted “black laws” in the agricultural sector will succeed and the peasants will emerge victorious.
Paying rich tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on the occasion of their birthdays, she said the Mahatma was the “greatest sympathizer of farmers, workers and the working class” , Shastri gave the slogan of “Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan”.
The Congress president’s remarks took the form of a video message on a day when his party organized protests in every district across the country in favor of farmers and against the three farm laws.
खेत-खलिहान और किसान के हितैषी, रखवाले और बुलंद आवाज राष्ट्रपिता पूज्य बापू और पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री श्री लाल बहादुर शास्त्री जी की जयंती पर कांग्रेस अध्यक्षा श्रीमती सोनिया गांधी जी का संदेश।#GandhiJayantipic.twitter.com/2wg4FLVYbN
– Congress (@INCIndia) October 2, 2020
Noting that Mahatma Gandhi used to say that the soul of India resides in the villages, fields and barns of India, she said that the country’s farmers and farm workers are rallying in the streets against the three “black anti-farmer laws”.
“The Modi government makes farmers cry tears of blood, even though they grow food grains for the country with their sweat,” she said.
Sonia Gandhi said the Congress Party has always made laws with the consent of the public and kept the interests of the people first before enacting laws, because democracy also means that every decision of the country has the consent of the compatriots.
“But does the Modi government believe in it? Perhaps the Modi government does not remember that it has not been able to change the ‘right to adequate compensation’ for farmers’ rights by the through a prescription.
“The Congress Party will continue to fight against the three black laws. Today our workers are agitation for farmers and workers in all constituencies in the assembly. I mean with confidence that this agitation of farmers and Congress will be successful and the farmers will win, ”she said in her video post.
The congressman said that during the coronavirus pandemic, everyone demanded from the government that every country in need get free food grains.
“Was it possible that without our fellow farmers, we could manage two meals for the crores of our people,” she asked.
“Today the Prime Minister of the country is doing a flagrant injustice to our ‘Annadata‘ Farmers. The laws were made for the farmers, but they were not even consulted. The matter was not even discussed… their interests were put aside by talking to their chosen friends before developing the three black laws, ”she said.
Sonia Gandhi said that when the voice of the farmer was not even heard while making laws in Parliament, they were forced to take to the streets to express their voice peacefully on the path shown by Mahatma Gandhi .
“Far from listening to their voices, the anti-democratic and anti-people government hit them lathis. What do our farmers and farm workers want? They only want the fair price for their hard-earned products in these laws and that is their basic right, ”she noted.
The congressman said that when grain markets are abolished, hoarders will have a free hand to accumulate food grains and farmers’ land will be turned over to capitalists for agriculture. “So who will protect the crores of small farmers,” she asked.
Noting that the future of farm workers and others is tied to farmers, she asked, “What will happen to small traders and workers in grain markets? Who will protect their rights? Has the Modi government thought about this?
She said the Modi government should remember that it was unable to change the law on the right to fair compensation and transparency in land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement through an ordinance.
Party leader Rahul Gandhi while greeting his fellow citizens on Gandhi Jayanti quoted the lines of Mahatma Gandhi in his message, saying: “I will not fear anyone in the world … I will not bow down to the injustice of anyone, I will win the lie with the truth and I can endure all suffering by opposing the lie. “
Sharing a quote from Mahatma Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said in a Hindi tweet, “… it is our duty to support the weak through our politics.”
Congress leader Randeep Surjewala also quoted Mahatma Gandhi’s words to say, “The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members.”
“On the occasion of Gandhiji’s 151st birthday, may each of us remember it again,” he tweeted.
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