Wearing a Rajasthani safa or turban, Gandhi arrived in Rupanagarh on a tractor with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and state Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra.
PTI reported that Gandhi spoke while standing on a platform made of two tractor-trailers while the farmers sat or stood on tractor-trailers around the platform.
At Nagaur’s Makrana, the Congress leader also stated that the “backbone of the country is being broken,” and this had started with demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax (GST).
“Farmers, labourers, traders are being sidelined and the path is being cleared for two-three businessmen,” Gandhi alleged, adding that labourers had requested the prime minister to give them tickets to go home, but he didn’t and instead “waived loans of Rs 1.5 lakh crore of the rich.”
On Observing Silence in the Parliament
Gandhi went on to say that he kept silence in the Parliament as a “mark of respect to 200 farmers who died during the agitation against the farm laws.”…