After Rahul Gandhi's tractor rallies in Punjab and Haryana earlier this month to protest the farm laws, Congress plans to take such rallies across India in November. The Congress leadership has asked its Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) to prepare for 'tractor yatras' in their respective states.
Rahul Gandhi mobilised his ‘Kheti Bachao Yatra’ on October 4 from Punjab’s Moga district. Gandhi has been on the move ever since the three controversial farm bills were moved in the Parliament. Congress is demanding the rollback of these bills, now acts, which were passed in both the houses last month amidst a huge ruckus.
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Rahul Gandhi looks to scale up his ‘tractor yatras’, will rally in BJP ruled states as well: Key points
- In his letter to the Pradesh Congress Committees, party General Secretary KC Venugopal said:" To continue our fight, the PCCs are requested to take out 'tractor yatras' in their respective states in which all state office-bearers apart from members of Parliament and MLAs along with Congress affairs in charges will participate.
- "The occasion should be utilised to demolish the farmers' yatra undertaken by the BJP and galvanise public opinion against the three central farm laws," the Rajya Sabha MP added.
- The Congress said it had also chalked out a strategy to corner the Modi government on key issues of economic policy, farmers and women's safety in the coming weeks.
- The Congress said that the party's future course of action has been decided on what is called the "anti-farmers, anti-women, anti-labour and anti-poor policies and actions" of the BJP-led the central government and the state governments.
- BJP leaders had held 'Kisan Dhanyawaad Yatra' while riding a convoy of tractors that passed through villages in Jagadhri block of Yamunanagar district in Haryana a few days ago, apart from holding 'tractor pujas' and rallies earlier this month.
