What 'kheti ka khoon'? Why silence on farmers suicide during INC rule? -BJP's jibe
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New Delhi, January 20: The heat shed a lot on 56th day of the ongoing farmer's protest when the two major political parties in India began the blame-lash game. BJP leader Prakash Javadekar in a press meet on Wednesday lashed out at Congress saying that the party is not interested in resolving the issues pertaining to the farmers and that the Gandhi’s media address a day before the government and the farmers’ meet shows that the party does not want the talks to be successful.
This is after Congress's Rahul Gandhi earlier had commented that he would not answer questions put to him by BJP president JP Nadda. Addressing the media, Gandhi in response to a question had said, “Who is he? Why should I answer him...? Is he my professor? I will answer the country.” Earlier the day, Nadda had asked Gandhi to clarify the party’s stand on a range of issues from China to the farm laws, alleging the Congress was misleading the farmers.
Javadekar said Gandhi’s reluctance to answer questions shows he has no answers to give. “A national party president is asking questions, you should reply. He has run away from giving replies. He said there is a monopoly of a few families in the country. Monopoly of one family during the UPA rule was overthrown by the people. They are upset by that...there is a change, now 125 crore people rule the country. During the Congress rule it was only one family that remained in power,” Javadekar added taking a swipe at the Gandhi family.
It is rather hypocritical of @RahulGandhi to be talking about 'kheti ka khoon' while Congress has blood on its hands, of farmers who committed suicide during Congress rule, of lakhs of people who died during partition, of over 3000 Sikhs burnt alive in Delhi during 1984 riots. pic.twitter.com/tZMKT94aQM
— Prakash Javadekar (@PrakashJavdekar) January 19, 2021
He said the Congress must answer why Aksai Chin was given away by it and land parcels in Arunachal Pradesh. “Wasn’t the 1984 massacre when three lakh Sikhs were burnt alive a bloodbath? In Bhagalpur, thousands of people were killed, was that not a game of bloodshed? Was blood not shed when farmers committed suicide during the UPA regime,” the minister pondered.
As expected the talks between the agitating farmers and the government on farm laws remain inconclusive so far, the scope for further meetings and deliberations is not ruled out yet. The crux of the controversy over the revolutionary farm laws enacted by the Parliament during the last session is misconception among the farmers arising out of misleading propaganda by the opposition parties, mainly the Congress and the Left parties, and the biased media. Right from the day one, these adversaries of the government are at work to mislead the farmers on these laws which otherwise would have benefitted them immensely.
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