Rahul continues to attack Centre on agri legislations claims ryots not aware of details

Kalpetta (Ker), Jan 28 (PTI): Congress leader Rahul<br>Gandhi on Thursday continued to attack the Centre over the<br>three farm laws and claimed most farmers were not aware of<br>details of the bills and if they did, there would have been an<br>agitation throughout the  country.<br>        Referring to the contentious central farm laws, he<br>said it was the "latest deadly assault" on the farmers.<br>         A day after violence during the farmers' tractor<br>rally in Delhi, Gandhi had appealed to the Narendra Modi<br>government on Wednesday to repeal, what he claimed were,<br>"anti-agriculture" laws.<br>       "Most of the farmers are not aware of the details of<br>the farm bills.Because if they did,  there would have been<br>an agitation throughout the country," he said,addressing a UDF<br>convention on Thursday at Kalpetta in Wayanad, his Lok Sabha<br>constituency, on the second day of his two-day visit to poll-<br>bound Kerala.<br>             He also alleged that while the BJP government at<br>the Centre was "aggressively" using its central agencies-CBI<br>and the Enforcement Directorate (ED)-against opposition party<br>ruled governments, there was no such pressure on left ruled<br>Kerala where the assembly polls are only months away.<br>       &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;    "In every opposition party ruled states, CBI<br>and ED are used aggressively by the BJP.There is no such thing<br>in Kerala. There is no such pressure on the Kerala government.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CBI and ED are very relaxed on the cases here,"<br>Gandhi said.<br>  "You go through newspaper reports.Does the BJP attack the<br>Congress more or the CPI(M)? Does the Prime Minister attack<br>the Chief Minister of Kerala or does he attack the<br>leadershipof the Congress party?" he asked, apparently<br>suggesting that the saffron party was going soft on the left<br>front in the southern state.<br>   Continuing to target the Centre over the farm<br>laws,Gandhi alleged the basic idea was to hand over the<br>agricultural system of the country to three or four<br>businessmen.   <br>           "Five to 10 people are "stealing" every single<br>farmer's produce. They are stealing from every single worker,<br>they are stealing from every single worker in the mandis and<br>stealing from every truck driver who takes wheat from the<br>mandis and the Prime Minister of India is organising the<br>robbery," he alleged.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;   "This is not just a crime against farmers, but<br>crime against India," Gandhi said.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;   Gandhi also said if the Congress-led UDF comes to<br>power in Kerala, a medical college, along pending demand of<br>his Wayanad constituency, would become a reality.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "The state government is going slow on this demand,"<br>he claimed.<br>         Later after inaugurating a spice kit distribution<br>to SC farmers at Ambalavayal, organised by RARS, Kerala<br>agriculture university, Gandhi said his endeavour was to make<br>Wayanad synonymouswith spices and he had written to the<br>Centre to set up a spice park in the district.PTI UD BN<br>WELCOME   <br> BN<br>WELCOME

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