New Delhi: Police on Tuesday briefly stopped Rahul Gandhi’s tractor rally to campaign against the centre’s farm laws outside Haryana.
The Congress leader, who was moving from party-ruled Punjab towards Haryana for his three-day rally, had said he would not budge “even if he had to wait for 5,000 hours”, NDTV reported.
However, the Haryana government allowed a small contingent in less than an hour.
“They have stopped us at the Haryana border. I will stay here until they open it. If it takes two hours then two hours. If it takes six hours then six, 10 hours then 10, 24 hours then 24, 100 hours, 200 hours, 500 hours…As many hours as it takes, I will not move,” Rahul Gandhi told NDTV, seated in a tractor.
“When they open the border, I will peacefully proceed. Until then I will peacefully wait here,” he told NDTV.Accord
He also tweeted: “They have stopped us on a bridge on the Haryana border. I’m not moving and am happy to wait here. 1 hours, 5 hours, 24 hours, 100 hours, 1000 hours or 5000 hours.”
According to media reports, the police had set up barricades as Congress workers holding flags and chanting slogans tried to push through.
Later, only 100 people and three tractors, including Rahul Gandhi’s, were allowed to go through.
It may be recalled that Rahul Gandhi launched the ‘Kheti Bachao Yatra’ a three-day tractor rally on Sunday to protest against the new laws that the opposition says will leave the farmers at the mercy of corporates and deprive them of a fair deal for their produce.
He is slated to address two rallies in Haryana.
