Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government was tiring the farmers protesting against the farm laws so that they end their agitation and leave.
“Time is being wasted, you are being made to tire out,” he told reporters. “They think that the farmers do not have strength. They think that the farmers will leave in 10 days, 15 days. [Prime Minister] Narendra Modi ji does not respect the farmers.”
On a question about the deaths of the farmers, the Congress leader said that it doesn’t matter to Modi how many farmers die. Gandhi made the statements while leading a protest outside Delhi’s Raj Niwas, the Hindustan Times reported. He was accompanied by Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and party workers. The Congress is calling the protest the “Kisan Adhikar Diwas [Farmers’ Rights Day]”.
“The prime minister thinks that the 3-4 industrialists run the country,” he said. “It is a very…