British were ‘company Bahadur’ back then and now Modi-friends are ‘company Bahadur’: Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi drew an analogy between the ongoing farmers’
protests against the three new farm laws and the Mahatma Gandhi-led Champaran
agitation during the British rule. He said that every farmer-labourer
fighting for their rights is a ‘satyagrahi’ and they will take their rights back.

“The country is going to face a Champaran-like tragedy. British
were ‘company Bahadur’ back then and now Modi-friends are ‘company
Bahadur’,” Gandhi alleged in a tweet in Hindi.

“But, every farmer-labourer of the movement is a ‘satyagrahi’ who
will take back their rights,” the former Congress chief said.

The Champaran Satyagraha marked an important historic event in India’s
independence movement. Started in 1917, it was a farmers’ uprising when they
protested growing indigo without getting paid for it.

The Congress has been backing the farmers as they seek the repeal of the
three farm laws.

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The issue of a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) still
remains a stalemate.

The farmers have been protesting at various borders of the national
capital for 39 days, braving the cold and rainy conditions.