Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that what was being done to farmers was absolutely criminal. At a press conference in Delhi, he exhorted the farmer not to cede even ‘an inch” of space since it was a question of their future and dignity.
The government must not think that farmers were going to go home. This situation was only going to spread and there was an urgent need for a conversation and arrive at a solution. “I want to tell our farmers that we [Congress] are with them. You should not move an inch back, it’s a question of your future and you should fight for it. These 4-5 people, who are trying to rob you of your future, do not let them rob you. And we are with you in this fight,” he said.
Without singling out any one incident of violence, he stated, “What is being done to farmers is absolutely criminal. You are beating them, you are threatening them, you are bullying them, and you are trying to discredit them.”
Farmers’ anger was only…