Those who want to ‘break’ farmers are traitors: Priyanka Gandhi

New Delhi: Amid heightened police presence at Singhu and Ghazipur borders to get them vacated of the farmers who are agitating against the new agricultural laws, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday alleged that farmers are being threatened.

In a series of tweets in Hindi, she said: “From midnight yesterday there was a effort to finish the agitation by force, today the farmers at the Ghazipur and Singhu borders are being threatened. This is against democratic norms. The Congress will stand with the farmers in this struggle. Those who want to break them are traitors…

“Strict action should be taken against violent elements, but the whole nation is behind those farmers who are agitating peacefully.”

Her brother and former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, in a tweet in Hindi, said: “Time has come to take sides. My decision is clear. I am siding with democracy and the farmers and their peaceful protest.”

कल आधी रात में लाठी से किसान आंदोलन को ख़त्म करने की कोशिश की। आज गाजीपुर, सिंघू बॉर्डर पर किसानों को धमकाया जा रहा है। यह लोकतंत्र के हर नियम के विपरीत है। कांग्रेस किसानों के साथ इस संघर्ष में खड़ी रहेगी। किसान देश का हित हैं। जो उन्हें तोड़ना चाहते हैं- वे देशद्रोही हैं।..1/2

— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) January 28, 2021

The comments came after the Uttar Pradesh government has ordered the district administrations to get all the farmers protest site on the state’s borders with Delhi vacated, officials said on Thursday.

..हिंसक तत्वों पर सख़्त कार्यवाही की जाए लेकिन जो किसान शांति से महीनो से संघर्ष कर रहे हैं, उनके साथ देश की जनता की पूरी शक्ति खड़ी है। 2/2

— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) January 28, 2021

The orders came two days after violence during the ‘Kisan Gantantra parade’ on the occasion of the Republic Day at several locations in the national capital.

At the Singhu border, the protesters camping at the site have been cornered to a designated area near the central stage, while the key routes connecting Delhi and Haryana around the border were blocked on Thursday.

IANS

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