Priyanka, Congress leaders have no right to speak about democracy, farmers: Uma Bharti

Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti on Tuesday said Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and others in her party do not have the right to speak about farmers and democracy. Lakhimpur Kheri District. Priyanka Gandhi was detained on Monday while on her way to Lakhimpur Kheri in Sitapur (Uttar Pradesh), where eight people were killed and several others killed in Sunday’s bloody clash since farmers protested against the Centre’s agricultural laws last year. Others were injured.

On Tuesday, the Congress general secretary took to Twitter to ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi why the man responsible for the killing of four farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri has not been arrested yet, while he is “under house arrest for the last 28 hours” without any orders. After the FIR, Bharti said in a series of tweets in Hindi, Uttar Pradesh Congress general secretary Mrs Vadra and other Congress leaders do not have the right to speak on the issues they are speaking on, the senior BJP leader claimed. That agriculture and farmers were “left behind” because soon after independence, (Mahatma) Gandhi’s dream of agriculture as the main economic base of the country was “destroyed” by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Congress which imposed emergency in the country lost the right to utter the word democracy Congress leaders and workers burnt alive 10,000 Sikhs. Hence, the word non-violence does not suit the Congress, he further claimed. Bharati Sai d His suggestion to the Congress leaders is to have a positive attitude and cooperate with the (central) government to solve the problems of the farmers.