Congress hold demonstrations, hundreds arrested

Ahmedabad/Rajkot/Vadodara/Surat: Main opposition Congress today organized state wide demonstration, blockade and effigy burning programmes to protest against the firing incident on farmers in Mandsaur of neighbouring Madhya Pradesh during which hundreds of the party workers and leader were also arrested.

During the effigy burning in Vadodara one party workers sustained burn injury and was hospitalized.

Party organized demonstration with making human chains also in all the 33 district headquartes including Ahmedabad, Surat and Rajkot.

Gujarat Congress President Bharatsinh Solanki said that the party would organize even bigger events of protest if the government did not take appropriate measures to bring the farmers out of distress mainly caused by poor policies of the government. State Congress in-charge Ashok Gehlot said that the farmers were not getting proper MSP of their produce and the government must take steps to provide proper price to their produces.

Countering the Congress, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani said that Congress was raking up such issues as it was not having any proper issue to win the public back.
‘The plight of farmers during Congress regime was very poor. During 10 years of Manmohan government many farmers comitted suicide,’ he said.

Union Minister of state Parshottam Rupala said that Congress was trying to politicize the matter. ‘Government was keeping an eye on the situation,’ he said.

Meanwhile, several youth congress leaders and activists were nabbed while they were trying to stop a train at Maninagar railway crossing in Ahmedabad.

DeshGujarat