Rahul Gandhi 
New Delhi: Hours after Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar hinted at the return of the farm laws, the Congress alleged that the Centre was hatching a “conspiracy” to bring back the three farm laws after the next round of assembly polls and urged the people to teach the government a lesson by defeating it in the elections.
Reacting to Tomar’s remark, Congress’ former chief Rahul Gandhi said the country’s agriculture minister has “insulted” Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “apology” and said, “it is condemnable”.
“If anti-farmer steps are taken again, then satyagraha of ‘annadatas’ will take place again. Farmers defeated arrogance, will again defeat it,” Gandhi said in a tweet in Hindi, using the hashtag ‘FarmersProtest‘.
Speaking at the event in Nagpur, Tomar said, “We brought agriculture amendment laws. But some people did not like these laws which were a big reform brought about 70 years after Independence under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership.”
“But the government is not disappointed, we moved a step back and we will move forward again because farmers are India’s backbone,” he added.
Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala also reacted to Tomar’s reaction, saying the “concerted conspiracy” to bring back the three “anti-farmer” agriculture laws now stands exposed again by the statement made by the Agriculture Minister.
He further said that perceiving defeat in the five state elections including Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had apologised and repealed the three black laws in Parliament.
Surjewala said that immediately after the repeal of the laws, several BJP leaders had made statements talking about the return of the farm laws.
On November 21, Rajasthan Governor Kalraj Mishra said the three repealed farm laws will be brought back while BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj made a similar statement.
The Farm Laws Repeal Act repealed the three farm laws which were passed by Parliament in September last year.