With the Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu just a few months away, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday, 14 January, celebrated Pongal in Avaniyapuram, Madurai, and attended a Jallikattu event with Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) President MK Stalin's son and actor Udhayanidhi.
Gandhi, while speaking to the media in Madurai, slammed the Modi government over the ongoing protests against the farm laws, saying it is not neglecting farmers, but conspiring to destroy them as it wants two or three of its “friends” to benefit.
"They (the government) want to give what belongs to farmers to 2-3 of their friends. That's what's happening. Neglect is too weak a word to explain what is taking place," the Congress leader was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.