The granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, on Saturday (February 13) visited the Ghazipur border outside Delhi and extended her support to the farmers protesting there for the last few months against the farm laws passed by the central government. 84-year-old Bhattacharjee termed her visit ‘apolitical’.
“I have not come here for any political party and there is no police escort with us. I am an 87-year-old senior citizen of this country. We have come here today for the farmers, who feed us all our life. If farmer brothers will not benefit, the country will not be benefitted,” said Bhattacharjee, in her address to the protesting farmers.
She is the Chairperson of the National Gandhi Museum and visited the protest site with other workers of the Gandhi Foundation. Bhattacharjee further said, “I always stand with the truth. I have absolutely no knowledge about politics.”
She shared the stage with Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait…
