Rahul Gandhi on Farmers Protest : Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said that the attempt to stop farmers from coming to Delhi is reprehensible and the government should listen to their demands seriously and act on them. A group of 101 farmers started a march on foot to Delhi from the Shambhu border on the Punjab and Haryana border on Friday, but they were stopped after a few meters by putting up a multi-level barrier.

Rahul Gandhi supports protesting farmers.

When some farmers reached the barricades erected on the Haryana side of the Shambhu border, security personnel used tear gas. Rahul Gandhi posted on 'X', "Farmers want to come to Delhi to put forward their demands before the government and express their pain. Firing tear gas shells on them and trying to stop them in various ways is condemnable. The government should listen to their demands and problems seriously."

The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said that the suffering of the farmers can be gauged from the fact that today in the country, one farmer is forced to commit suicide every hour. Rahul, who has been the President of the Congress, claimed that the country has not forgotten the martyrdom of more than 700 farmers in the first farmers' movement due to the extreme insensitivity of the Modi government.

'The country will be prosperous only when the farmers are prosperous'

He said, "We understand the pain of the farmers and support their demands. The government should immediately implement all the demands including legal guarantee of MSP, MSP 1.5 times the comprehensive cost of cultivation as per the recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission, loan waiver, etc." Rahul Gandhi said that the country will be prosperous only when the farmers are prosperous.

March postponed for a day after farmers got injured

.Punjab farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher said protesters on Friday postponed their foot march towards Delhi after some farmers were injured due to tear gas shells fired by security personnel. "Given some farmers getting injured, we have called back the group for today," Pandher said. The farmer leader claimed that five to six protesting farmers were injured due to tear gas shells fired by Haryana security personnel. He said two platforms of farmers' organizations Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha, will decide the next step after a meeting.

Some farmers were injured and were taken to the hospital

A. batch of 101 farmers on Friday began their march towards Delhi from the Hambhu border on the Punjab-Haryana border but stopped after a few meters of the ulti-layered barricade. Security personnel fired several rounds of tear gas shells to disperse the protesting farmers and force them to return to their protest site. Farmer leaders claimed that some farmers were injured and were rushed to hospital. The Haryana police asked the farmers not to proceed further and cited prohibitory orders under Section 163 of the Indian Civil Security Code (BNSS).