“What Magic Is This, Rahulji…”: JP Nadda’s Swipe Over Farm Laws Protest

New Delhi:

BJP chief JP Nadda on Sunday accused the Congress’s Rahul Gandhi of hypocrisy and deceptive farmers protesting in opposition to the centre’s controversial agriculture legal guidelines.

Mr Nadda, who on Thursday tweeted an previous video of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi as “proof of (the celebration’s) double-talk”, focused her son at present, digging out an excerpt from Mr Gandhi’s Could 2015 Lok Sabha speech during which Gandhi appeared to assist elimination of middlemen and permitting farmers to promote on to consumers.

“What is that this magic occurring, Rahulji? What you have been earlier advocating, now you might be opposing. You don’t have anything to do with the curiosity of nation or farmers. You wish to play politics. However your hypocrisy won’t work… the individuals and the farmers have realised your twin character,” Mr Nadda tweeted.

Within the hooked up video, Mr Gandhi narrates a dialog between himself and a farmer from Uttar Pradesh, during which the farmer says he might get a greater value for his potato crop if he might promote on to factories that make potato chips.

ये क्या जादू हो रहा है राहुल जी?

पहले आप जिस चीज़ की वकालत कर रहे थे, अब उसका ही विरोध कर रहे है।

देश हित, किसान हित से आपका कुछ
लेना-देना नही है।आपको सिर्फ़ राजनीति करनी है।लेकिन आपका दुर्भाग्य है कि अब आपका पाखंड नही चलेगा। देश की जनता और किसान आपका दोहरा चरित्र जान चुके है। pic.twitter.com/Uu2mDfBuIT

— Jagat Prakash Nadda (@JPNadda) December 27, 2020

The BJP has repeatedly accused the Congress (and different opposition events) of deceptive protesters and engineering protests in opposition to the farm legal guidelines for political acquire. The ruling celebration has alleged the Congress needed to go related payments when it was in energy (on the head of the United Progressive Alliance), however is now opposing the reforms for worry of shedding votes and credit score.

“The fact of the Congress, which confuses farmers and deprives them of their rights, is revealed once more. Sonia Gandhi used to advocate a market freed from middlemen for farmers and now opposes it. That is proof of the Congress’s opportunistic considering,” Mr Nadda said in his attack on Sonia Gandhi.

Within the undated video that accompanied his tweet, Ms Gandhi seems to be talking in favour of the elimination of middlemen to allow farmers to get “the fitting value for produce”.

Farmers protesting the new laws fear being disadvantaged of MSPs (minimal assist value) and being left on the mercy of corporates. The centre, nonetheless, insists the legal guidelines free farmers from having to take care of middlemen and offers them the choice to promote at markets and costs of their selection.

5 rounds of talks have been held thus far to resolve the deadlock between the 2 sides. Nonetheless, neither facet is prepared to budge at this level. The farmers need the legal guidelines scrapped and the centre is simply open to amending extra problematic sections.

An invite to a sixth spherical has been dismissed by the farmers, who say the centre is “not serious about our demands” and is extra desirous about propaganda that paints them in a damaging gentle.

This morning farmers banged thalis to create a racket as Prime Minister’s month-to-month radio deal with – Mann ki Baat – was broadcast. The protests occurred at three spots – at Singhu on the Delhi-Haryana border, in Punjab’s Faridkot and Rohtak in BJP-ruled Haryana.