If all farmers understood the details of farm laws, country would be on fire, says Rahul Gandhi

KOZHIKODE: Stepping up his attack against the Central government over the new farm laws, Congress leader and Wayanad MP, Rahul Gandhi said that most farmers have not understood the details of the farm laws and if they did there would be an agitation all across the country and the country would be on fire.
Speaking at a UDF convention at Kalpetta in Wayanad on Thursday, he termed the three new farm laws as the `latest deadly assault on the kisans’.
“The truth is that most farmers do not actually understand the details of the bill (the three farm laws), because if they did, there would be an agitation all across the country. The country would be on fire,” he said.
Rahul said that bills destroy the idea of the mandi and allows a handful of businesses to store as much of agricultural products as they want so that they will be able to control the prices of the commodities.
He said that the basic idea was to handover the agriculture system of this country to 3- 4 business people.
“Five- 10 people are stealing every single farmer's produce. They are stealing from every single worker in the farm; they are stealing from every single person who works in the mandi and stealing from every single truck driver who takes the wheat from the mandi. And the Prime Minister of India is organizing the robbery," he alleged.
Rahul also alleged that while the Narendra Modi government in the Centre was aggressively using the CBI and Enforcement Directorate (ED) against Opposition party ruled governments, there was no such pressure on the LDF- led Kerala government.
“Every single Opposition government, the CBI and ED are used aggressively. There is no such thing happening in Kerala. There is no such pressure being put on the government of Kerala by Narendra Modi. The CBI and ED are very relaxed about the cases in Kerala,” he said.
Stating that the upcoming Assembly election will be an election of ideologies, he said that the ideology of the UDF will be against the ideology of the LDF and the ideology of the RSS.
“Just do a simple thing. Go to a newspaper and see if the BJP attacks the Congress more or does it attack the CPM more. Does the Prime Minister attack the chief minister of Kerala or does he attack the leadership of the Congress party. I don’t have to go into the details, you can see what is going in here, you can see the dynamics,” he said.