New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi has come down heavily on the Union government over the three farm laws, the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic slowdown and alleged atrocities against Dalits. She claimed that Indian democracy is passing through its ‘most difficult phase’.
She said a “conspiracy has been hatched to defeat the gains of the green revolution.”
Speaking at a meeting of AICC general secretaries and State in-charges, Sonia also alleged that the country was being ruled by a government which was systematically handing over the rights of citizens to a handful of crony capitalists.
She said the BJP-led dispensation has attacked the very foundation of India’s resilient agrarian economy by bringing in “three anti-agriculture black laws”.
“A conspiracy has been hatched to defeat the gains of the green revolution. Lives and livelihoods of crores of farm labourers, leasehold farmers, small and marginal farmers, toiling labourers and small shopkeepers are under attack. It is our solemn duty to join hands to defeat this sinister conspiracy,” she added.
Stating that the country’s democracy is passing through its most difficult phase, Sonia claimed there is a designed attack on the Constitution and democratic traditions.
The country was pushed into the abyss of coronavirus pandemic by sheer ineptitude and mismanagement of the Modi government, she said.
“All this happened as we witnessed the biggest unplanned and cruel migration of crores of migrant labourers as the government remained a mute spectator to their miseries. The stark truth is that a prime minister who promised to defeat corona within 21 days has abdicated his and his government’s responsibility towards the citizens,” she added.