Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday will address a huge rally in at Rangbhumi Maidan in Bihar's Purnea where Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra will enter today, a day after the march reached the state on Monday. He will address the public meeting at around 2 pm.
Rahul addresses farmers in Purnea
He interacted with farmers in Purnea and attacked the government over Land Acquisition Act.
"Any political leader who will speak about protecting the land of farmers will be attacked by media round the clock...Here, the Government of India is violating the Land Acquisition Act. I can raise this issue for you at the Parliament. I can't give you a guarantee that PM Modi will do anything about it but I can raise this issue for you. I can assure you that once our government comes to power, we will do this for you," he said.
The Congress leader alleged that the lands of the farmers are being snatched and being given as "gift" to the industrialists.
"Farmers are being gheraoed from all directions. Your land is being snatched away. Land is taken from you and given as a gift to big industrialists like Adani. On the other hand, you are pressured when it comes to fertilisers and seed & money is taken away from you. PM Modi tried to do the biggest thing - he brought the three black laws and tried to snatch away what was yours, right under your nose. It was good that all farmers of the country stood against it and they didn't step back. Aapki jaan back gayi. Otherwise, all of you would have been ruined. I think farmers are the spine of the country. But Rs 14 Lakh Crores of Billionaires are waived off...but farmers' loan is not waived off..." he alleged.
Rahul Gandhi, during Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Bihar's Araria, paid respects to Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary.
According to Congress legislature party leader in Bihar, the rally will also be addressed by AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge who has also invited other leaders of the opposition INDIA bloc to share the stage. Also likely to be present is Kanhaiya Kumar, who hails from the state's Begusarai district and is out on bail in the 2016 JNU sedition case.
Nyay Yatra enters Bihar
Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, being led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, entered Bihar on Monday (January 29) through Kishanganj, a district having a heavy Muslim population and also a stronghold of the party. Rahul Gandhi entered Bihar for the first time since the unsuccessful Assembly poll campaign in 2020 where the party only managed to win 19 seats out of the 70 it contested in. The Yatra reached a day after a massive turnaround took place in the state politics as Chief Minister Nitish Kumar left the I.N.D.I.A bloc and rejoined the NDA on Sunday (January 28).
Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra
The Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra is scheduled to travel 6,713 km over 67 days, traversing 110 districts across 15 states before concluding in Mumbai on March 20 or 21.
Rahul Gandhi will be leaving for West Bengal on Thursday via Araria district and will return to Bihar a few days later via Jharkhand, said state Congress president Akhilesh Prasad Singh.
The leaders of the state Congress, the party’s alliance partners in the state – RJD president Lalu Yadav and CPI(ML)-L general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya – have been invited to the rally at Purnea.
Congress had earlier also extended an invitation to Nitish Kumar who, according to sources, would not have attended the rally. The development was reported before the major shift in the Bihar politics took place yesterday.
After a two-day hiatus, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday resumed 'Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra' from Jalpaiguri, West Bengal. Gandhi was received by West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury at the Bagdogra airport in Siliguri in the northern part of the state.
(With PTI inputs)
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