Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 26
Congress leaders protested against agricultural laws in and outside Parliament on Monday and Rahul Gandhi led a demonstration outside a tractor.
Gandhi reached Parliament by tractor to express his opinion against agricultural laws.
He was accompanied by Punjab Congress MPs and Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Singh Hooda.
“These laws are for some industrialists and not for farmers. The government says that nothing bad has happened to the farmers and the farmers sitting on the protest are terrorists. But the truth is that laws are not for farmers. They are for some industrialists,” Gandhi told reporters before several Congress leaders including Randeep Surjewala and Youth Congress president BV Srinivas were taken into preventive custody by Delhi Police for violating Section 144 of CrPC outside Parliament.
Congress MPs also gave adjournment notice in Lok Sabha demanding repeal of agricultural laws and discussion on farmer issues.
Shiromani Akali Dal’s Harsimrat Badal and AAP MP Bhagwant Mann also moved similar notices.