Farmers Movement Archive

Punjab Congress MPs meet Priyanka Gandhi, to announce stir schedule

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Congress MPs, who have been protesting at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, met with party leader Priyanka Gandhi on Friday. They later announced that the party leadership would soon announce its separate programme for taking to the streets to take on BJP at the Centre in case the deadlock over the farm laws was not resolved. “We discussed the farm laws with Priyanka ji. If the issue is not resolved at the Centre’s meeting with the farmers’ leaders, Rahul and Priyanka will take a big decision that will shake BJP. Till now, it was the farmers’ organisations that were at the forefront to oppose the farm laws. The party will now upfront take on BJP and get the farm laws withdrawn,” said Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu after the meeting. “Till now, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka had maintained that the farmers should be allowed to lead the campaign even as the party did hold a tractor rally. But we got a call that the party leadership is now concerned,” he said. Amritsar MP Gurjit Singh Aujla said even if the farmers didn’t want the party to directly interfere in their agitation, the party could have its own programme. Priyanka said the Congress had always supported the farmers and the only solution to the issue was that farm laws were withdrawn, the MPs said. “There is no other solution to the deadlock,” she told the MPs during the meeting. Khadoor Sahib MP Jasbir Singh Gill said they discussed the concerns of the farmers with at her residence even as the sit-in by Congress MPs from Punjab entered its 33rd day on Friday. MLA Kulbir singh Zira was also present in the meeting.

The Times of India

2021-01-09

Chandigarh