Kicking off the Congress\u2019s campaign for the assembly elections due later this year in Gujarat, senior leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday announced a raft of measures, including a farm loan waiver of up to \u20b93 lakh, LPG cylinders at \u20b9500 and free power for farmers and household consumers (up to 300 units).<\/p>\n
Addressing the party\u2019s booth-level workers at a \u2018Parivartan Sankalp Rally\u2019 in Ahmedabad, Gandhi invoked the country\u2019s first home minister, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, to hit out at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/p>\n
\u201cWho was Sardar Patel and who did he fight for? You (BJP) have built his statues, but he was not just a human being, he was the voice of farmers of Gujarat and India. If you have read his speeches or gone through the pages of history, he has never uttered a word against farmers. The BJP works against the people for whom Patel fought for…the three agricultural laws, which were later repealed by the Centre, were meant to take away the rights of farmers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kicking off the Congress\u2019s campaign for the assembly elections due later this year in Gujarat, senior leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday announced a raft of measures, including a farm loan waiver of up to \u20b93 lakh, LPG cylinders at \u20b9500 and free power for farmers and household consumers (up to 300 units). Addressing the party\u2019s booth-level workers at a \u2018Parivartan Sankalp Rally\u2019 in Ahmedabad, Gandhi invoked the country\u2019s first home minister, Sardar Vallabhai Patel, to hit out at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). \u201cWho was Sardar Patel and who did he fight for? You (BJP) have built his statues, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}