Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for reiterating that the new agri laws are beneficial for farmers, the Congress on Sunday said the insistence in support of the legislations shows that the government is “drunk with power” and is rigid even in reconsidering the laws.
The Opposition party also demanded that Prime Minister Modi should immediately announce the suspension of the three “anti-agriculture” laws.
“The prime minister’s obduracy, arrogance and rigidity in dealing with 62 crore farmers and farm labourers of India is writ large by his insistence today in the ‘Mann ki Baat’ that the three anti-farmer, anti-agricultre laws, forcibly passed in an illegal and unconstitutional manner, by Parliament, are correct,” Congress’ chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said at a press conference at the AICC headquarters here.
“For the prime minister to say that these three laws are absolutely right when…