Wise words from big-hearted leader, writes defiant BJP MP
Continuing with his open defiance of the BJP’s official line on the farmers’ protest, the party’s Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha Varun Gandhi on Thursday sought to send out a “message” to Prime Minister Narendra Modi by posting on social media a 41-year-old speech of the late party patriarch Atal Bihari Vajpayee staunchly backing the farmers’ demands and saying “oppression of farmers will not be tolerated”.
Varun tweeted a video of the speech of Vajpayee with an accompanying text “wise words from a big-hearted leader”.
In an apparent message to the top BJP leadership, the BJP MP posted the short and sharp clip of former Prime Minister who seeks to warn the Government against intimidating and repressing farmers.
“Daman ke tarike chod dijiye, darane ki koshish mat kijiye...kisan darne wala nahi..”, Vajpayee is heard saying in his speech in Hindi as an Opposition leader in 1980.
“I want to warn the Government against intimidating these farmers. Don’t try to scare us. These farmers are not going to be scared. We don’t want to use the farmers’ movements for politics, we support their genuine demands and if the Government will try to scare us, or misuse the laws, or disregard the peaceful movement of farmers, then we will also become a part of this
