New Delhi: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has compared the ongoing farmers’ protests against the three new Central agriculture-related laws with the Champaran agitation during the British rule, and said every farmer-labourer part of the current movement is a ‘satyagrahi’.
“The country is going to face a Champaran-like tragedy. British were ‘company Bahadur’ back then and now Modi-friends are ‘company Bahadur’,” he tweeted in Hindi.
Rahul added: “But, every farmer-labourer of the movement is a ‘satyagrahi’ who will take back their rights.”
The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was led by Mahatma Gandhi and is considered a historic event in India’s independence movement.