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Live Updates: 'If They Take Your Land, We Will Be There,' Rahul Gandhi Tells Farmers At Rally In Delhi
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Updated : May 06, 2015 2:30 pm IST
New Delhi: Back after a 57-day break from politics, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi along with party president and mother Sonia Gandhi will address a rally on Sunday over the land acquisition bill and against the Narendra Modi government policies that the party describes as "anti-farmer".
Apr 19, 2015 13:32 (IST)
Apr 19, 2015 13:10 (IST)
- This energy today is what we need to fight against the injustice to farmers.
- We may be out of power but there will be no let up in our intensity of fighting for the farmers.
- Kisan ki awaaz na dabi hai, na dabegi
Apr 19, 2015 13:08 (IST)
"The PM who proclaimed 'sabka saath, sabka vikaas' has abandoned the farmers", Sonia Gandhi tells the farmers at Ramlila Maidan.
Apr 19, 2015 13:05 (IST)
Apr 19, 2015 13:04 (IST)
- They do not bother if you want to sell your land or not. If the land is not utilized within 5 years, there is no guarantee when will you get it back.
- Government isn't ready to procure wheat from farmers but are signing import deals with Australia. The value of paddy has fallen 35% in the past one year.
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Apr 19, 2015 13:03 (IST)
- BJP is conspiring against farmers, have introduced amendments to a law that they had consented to and is pro-farmers: Sonia Gandhi.
- The amendments are being made to benefit corporates and industrialists,
Apr 19, 2015 13:00 (IST)
- We are here to send a strong message to the PM and government: 'Enough is enough' (ab bahut ho chukka hai)
- The relief that is being announced for farmers is now next to nothing... it feels as if they are rubbing salt in your wounds.
Apr 19, 2015 12:57 (IST)
By coming here today in such large numbers you have strengthened our resolve: Sonia Gandhi addressing the rally at Ramlila Maidan
Apr 19, 2015 12:51 (IST)
- We don't want an India where a few get everything and the farmers get nothing: Rahul Gandhi.
- If they really want to 'Make in India,' then why have they changed the 5-year clause? We had said if nothing is built on land acquired in 5 years, it will be given back to the farmers.
- Congress will stand with you. If they try to take your land, we will be there. You will see Congress workers there, you will see me there: Rahul Gandhi tells farmers at mega-rally in Delhi.
Apr 19, 2015 12:48 (IST)
" 'Make in India' is Modi ji's dream that will not work. They will take away your land and you will have no other employment", Rahul Gandhi addressing the rally at Ramlila Maidan.
Apr 19, 2015 12:46 (IST)
Earlier they would take your land and not pay you. We changed that. We offered farmers 4 times the market rate.
Apr 19, 2015 12:45 (IST)
Modiji took loans from the industrialists and to pay them back he will give them your land: Rahul Gandhi at Ramlila Maidan.
Apr 19, 2015 12:43 (IST)
Apr 19, 2015 12:41 (IST)
- We have always worked for the poor and the weak and we will continue to fight their battle.
- In Niyamgiri, I met adivasis and pledged my support to them.
- Modiji went abroad and said 'I am cleaning "kachra" of the last 50 years'.
- What Modiji has said about India abroad, they neither befit Modiji, nor the office of the PM.
Apr 19, 2015 12:34 (IST)
- Farmers are afraid of the changes that are being introduced to the (land) bill we had brought in 2013.
- Today when a farmer goes to bed, he doesn't know what will happen to his land tomorrow... he is living in fear
- Farmers strengthen the nation before industrialists... they feed the nation
- Whenever the Congress government could help the farmers, we did it
- We waived off farmers' loans worth 70,000 crores. We brought in MNREGA for te labourers. Whatever we did we did for the poor.
Apr 19, 2015 12:31 (IST)
Farmers and labourers are a worried lot in India today because they feel the government has forgotten them: Rahul Gandhi addressing a rally at Ramlila Maidan.
Apr 19, 2015 12:28 (IST)
Senior Congress Leader Digvijaya Singh addressing the rally. Here is what he said:
- Rahul Gandhiji, Soniaji gave farmers rights under the Land Acquisition Act which the BJP wants to take away.
- Rahulji, the fight which you had started from Bhatta Parsaul has to be taken forward... farmers across India are looking towards you.
Apr 19, 2015 12:19 (IST)
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed the rally. Here is what he said:
- Congress has always fought for the rights of farmers and under Soniaji and Rahulji's leadership, we will be successful.
- During poll campaign, Modiji used to go around saying they will work for farmers but nothing of that sort has happened.
- Ordinance against 2013 bill we brought is aimed at wiping out all benefits for farmers. We will fight against these laws.
Apr 19, 2015 12:08 (IST)
Congress president Sonia Gandhi, vice president Rahul Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have arrived at the Ramlila Maidan in Delhi to take part in the mega rally of farmers that the Congress has organised to take the battle to the government on the land acquisition bill.
Apr 19, 2015 09:48 (IST)
A view of the crowd of farmers gathered at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan for the mega rally to be addressed by Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi.
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