Rahul Gandhi attacks the Centre over the farm laws

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday continued to criticise the Centre over the farmers’ agitation against the three central agricultural laws and said he would describe the content and intent of the legislation, which were passed by Parliament in September last year. “Yesterday while addressing the House, the PM said that the Opposition is talking about the agitation but not about the content and intent of the farm maws. I thought I should make him happy today and speak on the content and intent of the laws,” the Congress leader said in the Lok Sabha.

He said the content of the first law was aimed towards finishing the mandis and its intent was ‘to give one friend’ the right to have all the crops of India. The content of the second laws was to end the essential commodities act and its intent was ‘to help the second friend’, Gandhi added. “The content of the third law is that when a farmer goes before the biggest businessman of India to demand the right price for his crops, he will not be allowed to go to the Court,” he told the Lower House. Amid an uproar in Parliament during his address, Gandhi further alleged that the Centre never paid tributes to the farmers who had lost their lives during the ongoing agitation and went on to observe a two-minute silence to condole their deaths. The BJP's Anurag Thakur hit out saying that the Congress leader could not speak on the budget as he was not prepared.