Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday invoked Sikh Guru Guru Gobind Singh to say that to oppress somebody is a sin but to bear oppression is a bigger sin.
She was speaking at the final prayer meeting of Navreet Singh in a Rampur village in Uttar Pradesh.
She said the country was with the farmers and that the protest against the farm laws would continue till the government repealed them.
Singh died after his tractor overturned during the tractor rally on Republic Day. While some media outlets had claimed after the family of the deceased expressed doubts that his tractor overturned after he was hit by a bullet, Rampur DM Aujaneya Kumar Singh maintained that the post-mortem of Singh didn’t indicate any bullet injury.
Ms. Vadra said a farmer son’s went from a Rampur village to Delhi, thinking that his woes would be heard. “That if they were united, the government would listen. The government would open doors to listen to what is there in the farmers’ hearts. But it didn’t happen.”
‘Injustice to farmers’
By not repealing the farm laws, the government was doing injustice to farmers. “But the bigger injustice is when they describe martyrs [those who died during protests] as terrorists. And call the farmer protest a political conspiracy against the government.”
Without naming the Prime Minister, Ms. Vadra said that leader was of no use who could not “Listen to the pain of the poor and the farmers and say that their suffering is his suffering”.
Hundreds of people attended the ‘Antim Ardas’ of Singh held at a gurdwara in the Dibdiba village of Bilaspur in Rampur district.
Mr. Aujaneya Kumar Singh said the administration wouldn’t intervene in the visit of political leaders as long as there was no law and order problem.
Earlier, four cars of Ms. Vadra’s cavalcade hit each other, possibly because of dense fog near the Hapur bypass. “Nobody has been hurt,” said Avnish Kajla, president of the Meerut unit of the Congress.