Bhubaneswar: The Odisha unit of Congress party held a ‘Kheti Bachao Yatra’ from Congress Bhawan in Bhubaneswar to Cuttack as a mark of protest against the Centre’s new farm laws on Monday.
The protest rally was held under the leadership of party’s Odisha in-charge A. PCC chief Niranjan Patnaik, several senior leaders such as Narasingha Mishra and Sura Routray joined the rally.
It is worthwhile to mention here that the Congress party is holding the ‘Kheti Bachao Yatra’ across the nation in order to protest against the barbaric laws made by the BJP-led government in the Centre. They alleged that the new farm law is against the peasant community and no way it will benefit them.
In his letter to the Pradesh Congress Committees, party General Secretary KC Venugopal had said, ” To continue our fight, the PCCs are requested to take out ‘tractor yatras’ in their respective states in which all state office-bearers apart from members of Parliament and MLAs along with Congress affairs incharges will participate.”
Ms Kalinga