Rahul Gandhi on Monday led the opposition attack in the Lok Sabha on the government over the problems being faced by farmers, saying it had “failed” them and specifically targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over it.
In his first speech in the Budget session, the Congress vice president said the government was “ignoring” the farming community and favouring the industrialists and rich people, which was a “blunder” as the farmers will ‘harm” BJP in future.
“The acche din government has failed the country” on the issue of farmers, he said while participating in a short duration discussion on ‘The agrarian situation in the country’.
He said farmers are responsible for laying the “foundation” for whatever the country has achieved but they are being ignored by the government.
Taking digs at the Prime Minister, he said Modi “should switch over to the side of farmers and labourers from that of high and mighty and industrialists” as it will benefit BJP politically and harm Congress.
–PTI