‘Time to take sides…’: Rahul Gandhi tweets as farmers protest weakens at Delhi borders

Image Source : PTI File photograph: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi addresses a gathering throughout go to to Tamil Nadu.
Amid heightened police presence at Singhu and Ghazipur borders to get them vacated of the farmers who’re agitating in opposition to the brand new agricultural legal guidelines, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday alleged that farmers are being threatened.

In a collection of tweets in Hindi, she stated, “From midnight yesterday there was a effort to finish the agitation by force, today the farmers at the Ghazipur and Singhu borders are being threatened. This is against democratic norms. The Congress will stand with the farmers in this struggle. Those who want to break them are traitors…”

“Strict action should be taken against violent elements, but the whole nation is behind those farmers who are agitating peacefully.”

Her brother and former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, in a tweet in Hindi, stated, “Time has come to take sides. My decision is clear. I am siding with democracy and the farmers and their peaceful protest.”

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The feedback got here after the Uttar Pradesh authorities has ordered the district administrations to get all of the farmers protest web site on the state’s borders with Delhi vacated, officers stated on Thursday.

The orders got here two days after violence through the ‘Kisan Gantantra parade’ on the event of the Republic Day at a number of areas within the nationwide capital.

At the Singhu border, the protesters tenting on the web site have been cornered to a chosen space close to the central stage, whereas the important thing routes connecting Delhi and Haryana across the border have been blocked on Thursday.

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