Farmers’ protest: BJP’s accusatory stunts will not work, says Congress  

After the Bharatiya Janata Party's attack on the Congress over the APMC Act, the Congress hit back and said the BJP's accusatory stunts will not work and withdrawing black laws instead of wrongly blaming the Congress is the need of the hour.

Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill said the "BJP must realise that their overused, stale, repetitive stunts of blaming Pt Nehru and UPA will not end farmers protest. Farmers who feed the entire nation are fed up of BJP's anti-farmer policies. Congress only wants one thing: "MSP Ka Haq-Kisan Ke Haath Mein Rakh."

The Congress spokesperson raised many counter-questions and asked what reforms will happen by removing MSP. Did Congress speak about APMC reforms by abolishing MSP?

The Congress said if the new laws are pro farmer why is the BJP failing to convince the farmers and attacking the farmers with lathis and water cannons?

Shergill alleged that the BJP government is playing the role of a destroyer rather than a reformer -- law minister explains agriculture policy and agriculture minister explains defence deals and that's why they don't understand that snatching away the MSP is like dropping a Hiroshima bomb on the farmers.

The Congress along with almost all opposition parties barring a few has extended support to the Bharat Bandh on Tuesday.

Farmers from Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh are protesting along the borders of Delhi against the new agricultural laws by the central government.

The fifth round of talks between the government and the farmers leaders remained inconclusive on Saturday with both sides adamant on their stand on the three contentious farm laws. The next meeting is scheduled on December 9 with the farmers giving a 'Bharat Bandh' call on December 8, and asserting that the protest will continue if the government doesn't repeal the three laws which they said are "anti-farmer".