INDIA alliance to represent farmers’ interests if elected to power: Gandhi Rahul

Nashik: Congressman Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday that the opposition India alliance would represent farmers and create laws to safeguard them if it were elected to power. Addressing a farmers’ rally in Chandwad in the Nashik district of Maharashtra, he was joined by Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut and NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar as part of the Congress’s current ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’.

“The India Alliance government will be the voice of farmers and work to protect their interests,” Gandhi said.
In the creation of export-import policies, he pledged to preserve agricultural prices, restructure the crop insurance program to assist cultivators, forgive farmer loans, and work toward removing agriculture from the GST and implementing a single tax.
According to the Swaminathan committee report, the Wayanad Lok Sabha member also restated the Congress’s pledge of a legislative guarantee for the minimum support price (MSP).
According to the previous president of the Congress, 20 to 25 individuals in the nation own wealth equal to 70 crores of the whole population.
He said, “The Narendra Modi government waived industrialists’ debt of Rs 16 lakh crore.”
“This amount is equivalent to 24 years of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGA), under which Rs 35,000 crore is spent every year to give employment to the poor,” Gandhi said.
He added that the previous UPA administration, headed by the Congress, had forgiven farmers’ debt of Rs 70,000 crore.
“If the loans of rich people can be written off, farmers also should get the benefit,” he said.
Gandhi criticized the Agnipath program, which allows the armed services to enlist troops as Agniveers. He said that Agniveers get no pension or martyrdom and only six months of training.
“Farmers defend the people living in our nation, just as military guard its boundaries. “The country cannot advance if we fail to protect our jawans and kisans,” he said.
Sharad Pawar, the head of the NCP (SP), said that the federal government was indifferent to the suffering of farmers and the agricultural industry.
Farmers are bankrupt and taking their own lives because they aren’t being paid enough for their crops. He stated, “The farmers’ debt of Rs 70,000 crore was forgiven by the UPA administration.
The former Union minister said, “It is our collective responsibility to defeat the anti-farmer, anti-youth government which invites inflation.”
According to Sanjay Raut, the head of the Shiv Sena (UBT), Rahul Gandhi and the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) are fighting for the concerns of the people.
The Congress, the Shiv Sena (UBT), and the National Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) make up the MVA. It is a constituent of the INDIA group, the national opposition.