12-member farmer leaders delegation reaches Parliament to meet LoP Rahul Gandhi after alleged entry denial

New Delhi [India], July 24 (ANI): A 12-member farmer leaders delegation reached the office of Leader of Opposition Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, in Parliament House to meet him after the alleged initial entry denial on Wednesday.

KC Venugopal, Raja Brar, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Gurjeet Singh Aujla, Dharamvir Gandhi, Dr Amar Singh, Deepender Singh Hooda, and Jai Prakash were also present in the meeting.

Earlier, the Congress MP alleged that farmer leaders who were invited by him to meet in Parliament were not allowed inside.

Later the farmer leaders were allowed to come to Parliament only after LoP Rahul Gandhi decided to go outside to meet them.

Rahul Gandhi alleged that because they are farmers, maybe this is the reason they are not allowing them in.

“We had invited them (farmer leaders) here to meet us. But they are not allowing them here (in Parliament). Because they are farmers, maybe this is the reason they are not allowing them in,” he added.

According to the sources, the farmer’s leaders will ask Rahul Gandhi to bring a private member bill to fulfil their long-standing demands.

Meanwhile, the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (non-political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha leaders announced on Monday that they would burn effigies of the Union government all over the nation and launch a fresh protest to fulfil their demands for legalising the MSP guarantee.

As part of this protest, they will also stage a “long march” to support the private bills by the opposition. Subsequently, the protesting farmers will take out a tractor rally nationwide on August 15, when the country marks Independence Day. They will also burn copies of new criminal laws.

Addressing a press conference, Samyukt Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) leaders also said that the farmers’ ‘Delhi Chalo’ march will complete 200 days on August 31 and appealed to people to reach Khanauri, Shambhu, etc on the Punjab and Haryana border.

A rally will be held in the Jind district of Haryana on September 15, 2024, and another rally will be held in Pipli on September 22, 2024.

Earlier n February, the Haryana government had set up barricades on the Ambala-New Delhi national highway after farmer’s unions announced that farmers would march to Delhi in support of various demands, including a legal guarantee of minimum support price (MSP) for crops.