Two days after agitating farmers stormed the Red Fort in Delhi during their ‘Kisan Gantantra Parade’, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said that most farmers across India don’t understand the three farm laws because if they did, “the country would be on fire”, reported ANI.

“The truth is that most farmers do not understand the details of the Bill (the three Farm Laws), because if they did, there would be an agitation all across the country. The country would be on fire,” he said at a programme in Kalpetta town in his Lok Sabha constituency Wayanad, Kerala.

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Notably, the Congress leader on Wednesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repeal the farm laws, which he claimed were, “anti-agriculture” laws.

“Once again, I appeal to the Modi government that the anti-agriculture laws be taken back immediately,” Gandhi wrote in Hindi on Twitter.

He also shared Mahatma Gandhi’s quote: “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

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Thousands of farmers broke barriers to storm the national capital on Republic Day, conducting their tractor parade to highlight their demands against the farm laws. However, their parade soon dissolved into unprecedented scenes of anarchy as they fought with the Delhi police force, overturned vehicles and delivered a national insult hoisting a religious Sikh flag from the ramparts of the Red Fort, a privilege reserved for India’s national flag, the Tricolour.