Chennai: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi attacked the government over barricades and roadblocks set up at farmer agitation sites at Delhi’s borders, and asked the Centre to “build bridges and not walls”.
He also attacked the government over the blocking of Twitter accounts of all those who are tweeting on the ongoing farmer agitation.
Farmer protest sites at Delhi’s borders have turned into fortresses with police beefing up security and strengthening barricades.
Iron rods have been hooked between two rows of cement barriers on a flank of the main highway at the Singhu border to further restrict the movement of protesters, agitating against the Centre’s new farm laws.
Another portion of the highway at the Delhi-Haryana border is practically blocked as a makeshift cement wall has come up there.
At Ghazipur on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border, there are multi-layer barricades to stop the movement of vehicles. Barbed wire has also been put up to keep off people on foot.
“GOI, Build bridges, not walls!” Gandhi said on Twitter posting pictures of barricades and road blocks at the farmer protest sites.
“Modi style of governance — Shut them up. Cut them off. Crush them down,” he said in another tweet, sharing a report that Twitter has helped the government block accounts of those tweeting on farmers protests, including that of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha.
In another tweet, Gandhi tagged a screenshot of a news report purportedly talking about China building up and positioning its forces on LAC and alleged that the prime minister was not even using the word ‘China’.
He also said, ‘Firm action is needed to avert a catastrophe’.
The Congress has been demanding that the Centre should talk to the protesting farmers and repeal the three farm laws, against which they have been protesting.
