In protest against the three farm laws, the Uttarakhand Congress organised a massive protest in Dehradun on Friday. The Congress president Sonia Gandhi had given a call to the party-men to organise marches to the governor houses in every state and Friday’s protest in Dehradun was part of it. The Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Pritam Singh, the in charge of Uttarakhand Congress Devendra Yadav and leader of opposition (LoP) in state assembly Indira Hridayesh led the march. The agitated Congressmen started their march from Congress Bhawan located on Rajpur road. The march was stopped by the police at Hathibarkala where minor scuffle between the party workers and police occurred. Large number of Congressmen courted arrest here and were taken to the police line from where they were later released.

Addressing the party workers the PCC president Pritam Singh said that the Congress party is standing firmly behind the farmers who are agitating against the draconian farm laws. He said that the people of the country are fed up with the Narendra Modi led BJP government. He said that farmers, unemployed, poor, women and every section of society are suffering during the current regime.

The state in charge Devendra Yadav said that Congress party is a very sensitive party and fights for the cause of every section of the society. He said that every worker of the Congress party is standing shoulder to shoulder with the farmers on the issue of farm laws.  Yadav said that so far 70 farmers have died in agitation but the government is unmoved by the plight of farmers. He said that the agitation would continue till these laws are taken back.

The march was attended by the vice president Surya Kant Dhasmana, MLAs Qazi Nizamuddin, Manoj Rawat, former Minister Hira Singh Bisht, general secretary organisation Vijay Saraswat, Ranjit Rawat, Ajay Singh, Laxmi Rana, Sushil Rathi, Rajkumar, Lal Chand Sharma, Mahesh Joshi and large number of leaders and office bearers of frontal organisations of the party.