NEW DELHI: Eleven opposition parties on Thursday issued a joint statement demanding the repeal of the controversial farm laws and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should desist from making “baseless allegations” against opposition parties and farmers, and “repeatedly lying” to the latter about the laws being in their best interest.
The statement coincided with Congress leading a protest march to Rashtrapati Bhawan where Rahul Gandhi, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury met President Ram Nath Kovind and submitted nearly 2 crore signatures by farmers demanding the withdrawal of the farm laws.
In a statement signed by Rahul Gandhi, NCP’s Sharad Pawar, DMK leader TR Baalu, PAGD chairman Farooq Abdullah, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, CPM chief Sitaram Yechury, CPI general secretary D Raja, CPIML leader Dipankar Bhattacharya, All India Forward Bloc leader Debabrata Biswas and RSP leader Manoj Bhattacharya, the leaders alleged that M
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NEW DELHI: Opposition party leaders have termed the allegations made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has accused the parties of lying to the farmers, as baseless , stating that such accusations are a complete travesty of truth .
In a joint statement on Thursday, Congress, NCP, DMK, PAGD, RJD, SP, CPM, CPI, CPI(ML), AIFB and RSP leaders expressed their solidarity with the protesting farmers. PM must stop baseless accusations, repeal farm laws. We, the undersigned, register our strong protest against the baseless allegations being made by Prime Minister Modi, accusing the opposition parties of repeatedly lying to the farmers about the new farm laws and using them for their politics. The Prime Minister s accusations are a complete travesty of truth.