"Don't Allow Farmers To Face Manipur-Like Situation": Congress' Big Warning
NDTV
Farmers Protest March: The march, from Shambhu on the Haryana-Punjab border, began at 1 pm but ran immediately into fortified, multi-layered police barricades across National Highway 44.
The Congress on Friday called on the Bharatiya Janata Party to respond proactively to protesting farmers' demands about a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price, or MSP, and warned the government, "Do not allow the farmers of this country to face a situation like Manipur". Ambala, Haryana: Police fired tear gas shells at the protesters pic.twitter.com/3sCa9haqT5
The opposition party also slammed the government for taking the time out to watch a movie - on Monday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, members of his cabinet, and MPs attended a screening of 'The Sabarmati Report', a movie about the 2002 train-burning incident in Gujarat's Godhra.
"The Modi government has time to watch movies but does not have time to listen to demands of farmers. Prime Minister Modi should talk to the farmers without delay and immediately pass a law on MSP... this is the demand of the Congress," party leader Randeep Singh Surjewala said.
