On birth anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi expressed confidence that the agitation against three recently enacted as “black laws” in the agriculture sector will become successful and the peasants will emerge victoriously.
She said while the Mahatma was the “biggest sympathiser” of farmers, labourers and the working class, Bahadur gave the slogan of ”Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan”.
The interim president gave remarks via a video message on a day the party is staging dharnas in every district across the country in favour of farmers and against the three farm laws.
“Mahatma Gandhi used to say that the soul of India resides in India’s villages, fields and barns, and the country’s farmers and farm labourers are agitating on the streets against the three anti-farmer black laws,” she said.
“The Modi government is making the farmers cry tears of blood, even though they grow food grains for the country with their sweat,” she said in her video message.
The Congress party has always made laws with public consent and has kept the interests of people foremost before enacting laws, as democracy also means that every decision of the country has the consent of countrymen, Sonia Gandhi said.
“But does the Modi government believe in this? Perhaps the Modi government does not remember that it was not able to change the ”Right to Adequate Compensation Law” for rights of farmers through an ordinance.
“The Congress party will fight against the three black laws. Today our workers are agitating in favour of farmers and labourers in every assembly constituency. I want to say with confidence that this agitation of farmers and the Congress will be successful and the farmers will win,” she said.
When their voice was not even heard while framing the laws in Parliament, they were had to take the streets to express their voice peacefully on the path shown by ‘Mahatma Gandhi’.
“Far from taking note of their voice, the anti-democratic, anti-people government blew lathis on them. What do our farmers and farm labourers want? They only want the proper price for his or her hard-earned produce in these laws and this is often their basic right,” Sonia said.
खेत-खलिहान और किसान के हितैषी, रखवाले और बुलंद आवाज राष्ट्रपिता पूज्य बापू और पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री श्री लाल बहादुर शास्त्री जी की जयंती पर कांग्रेस अध्यक्षा श्रीमती सोनिया गांधी जी का संदेश।#GandhiJayanti pic.twitter.com/2wg4FLVYbN
— Congress (@INCIndia) October 2, 2020
Party leader Rahul Gandhi quoted Mahatma Gandhi’s lines he tweeted, saying “I will not fear anyone in the world… I will not bow down to anyone’s injustice, I will win over untruth with truth and I can bear all the sufferings while opposing the untruth.”
‘मैं दुनिया में किसी से नहीं डरूंगा… मैं किसी के अन्याय के समक्ष झुकूं नहीं, मैं असत्य को सत्य से जीतूं और असत्य का विरोध करते हुए मैं सभी कष्टों को सह सकूं।’
गाँधी जयंती की शुभकामनाएँ।#GandhiJayanti
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) October 2, 2020
Sharing a quote of Gandhi Ji, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweeted in Hindi, “This Jantar of Gandhi Ji is the inspiration for us today and through our politics, it is our duty to stand with the weak.”
गांधी जी का यह जंतर आज हमारे लिए प्रेरणा पुंज है और अपनी राजनीति के जरिए कमजोर लोगों के साथ में खड़ा होना हमारा कर्तव्य है।#MahatmaGandhi pic.twitter.com/OthkYkFcNo
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) October 2, 2020
It is Gandhi Ji’s 151st birth anniversary today.
