A delegation of Congress MPs and leaders, led by Rahul Gandhi will submit a memorandum with two crore signatures to President Ram Nath Kovind on December 24, urging his intervention for repealing the three contentious farm laws.
The Congress had launched a nationwide campaign for collecting memoranda of appeals addressed to the President signed by farmers, farm labourers and other stakeholders opposing the farm laws, and around two crore signatures have been collected so far.
"Lakhs of India’s farmers have been on protest in freezing weather against the three blatantly anti-agriculture laws aimed at bartering their interests in the hands of a select crony capitalist friends of the Modi government," said K.C. Venugopal, AICC general secretary in-charge of organisation.
In a statement, Venugopal said the Congress, along with other political parties, had vehemently opposed the bills inside and outside the Parliament. He referred to the tractor yatra which Rahul Gandhi and other party leaders undertook across Punjab and Haryana.
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"The arrogant Modi government, having initially duped the farmers' group by putting on a conciliatory face, soon made its intransigence apparent. It has become absolutely clear that the Modi government is only committed to the welfare of large corporates instead of innocent farmers and farm labour," he said.
Venugopal also accused the government of being on an overdrive, using public money to create false propaganda and narrative in favour of the "draconian" farm laws and discrediting the protesting farmers. "It is pushing manufactured surveys in media discourse to create support in favour of these anti-farmer laws," he said.
"From undemocratically suspending opposition MPs in Parliament, to labelling us as anti-national, the government has chosen to brazenly defame, discredit and eventually tire out the lakhs of protesting farmers. The Modi government and its ministers have chosen to insult them," Venugopal said.
