Tribune News Service

New Delhi, February 19

Amid signs of farmers’ protests sagging across the borders in Delhi, the Congress is expanding its formal association with the stir, revisiting its past role of a marginal spectator.

Leading this push are former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, AICC general secretary (Uttar Pradesh) Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot.

Priyanka, who recently addressed a farmer mahapanchayat in Uttar Pradesh, will attend a similar event in Mathura tomorrow.

Kisan Morcha seeks ‘fair probe’ into Unnao case

The Samyukta Kisan Morcha on Friday demanded a “fair investigation” into the death of two minor girls in UP’s Unnao and strict punishment for the culprits. “Governance and administration in Uttar Pradesh is once again under suspicion. There is no safe space for women,” it said in a statement.

Pilot today addressed a mammoth kisan mahapanchayat in Jaipur, the first since Rahul Gandhi visited the state to express solidarity with the agitating farmers.

At the mahapanchayat at Kotkhawada in Jaipur, Pilot demanded the withdrawal of agriculture reform laws, saying these were both “anti-farmer and anti-people.” The Jaipur mahapanchayat ended with the passage of a resolution seeking farm law revocation, a legislation to mandate MSPs and a rollback of the fuel price hikes.