Kharge warns Modi govt in Rajya Sabha
New Delhi: Congress president and Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge Wednesday criticised the India-US commerce deal, and warned the federal government of an agitation akin to the protest in opposition to the three farm legal guidelines again in 2020-21.
Kharge identified that India is an agricultural nation, and the most important a part of the inhabitants depends on farming. “I wish to remind the Prime Minister that after the year-long large protest by the farmers, you needed to bulldoze the three black farm legal guidelines…Now you’re making the identical mistake once more,” he stated.
Kharge then warned, “In any case of this, the farmers’ agitation will rise once more, and once they take to the streets once more, you’ll have to take all of this again, identical to you needed to do earlier.”
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— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) February 4, 2026
Kharge complained that Members of Parliament bought to know in regards to the India-US commerce deal by way of US President Donald Trump and never the Indian authorities. “That is an insult to the Parliament,” he stated, including that America typically insults India on the worldwide stage.
The Congress president alleged that the deal will “destroy” the Indian farmer.
He referred to a press release launched by the US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, who stated that the “new US-India deal will export extra American farm merchandise to India’s large market, lifting costs, and pumping money into rural America”.
“No matter is imported, there’s zero tariff on it, and what we ship to them, there will probably be 18% (tariff) on it. Are you working in favour of farmers or in opposition to them?” Kharge requested.
Trump had introduced the conclusion of negotiations on the India-US commerce deal on Monday. Quickly after, Prime Minister Narendra Modi confirmed that Indian exports will probably be tariffed at “18 %” after the 2 leaders spoke on name.
In his speech within the Rajya Sabha Wednesday, Union Commerce and Business Minister Piyush Goyal informed Parliament that the commerce deal would shield the pursuits of key sectors comparable to agriculture and dairy. He added that the deal could be useful for Indian exporters as a result of the tariffs are decrease than these imposed on competing nations.
‘Manusmriti above the Structure’
In his speech, Kharge spoke about social justice, and alleged that the Modi authorities had weakened the social material of the nation prior to now 11 years.
“Publish independence, we had two main targets—a social construction based mostly on equal justice and making the nation a parliamentary democracy. Within the final 11 years, you may have bulldozed each. In your thoughts, Manusmriti is above the Structure,” he asserted.
Talking throughout a dialogue on movement of thanks on the President’s handle within the ongoing Finances Session, Kharge stated that whereas the President spoke of lady empowerment, ladies have, in reality, solely grow to be a “vote financial institution” for the BJP.
“Thus far, BJP has not made any lady its president. In its 100 years, RSS has not handed over its management to any lady,” he stated.
Kharge additionally taunted the BJP over Manipur. He stated that whereas Vasco Da Gama took 11 months to journey to India from Portugal by way of Africa, it took Prime Minister Narendra Modi two years to go to Manipur regardless of the state witnessing human tragedy.
Talking about “selective focusing on” within the nation, Kharge stated: “In states like Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Delhi, Chhattisgarh and Kerala, even church buildings have been attacked…When elections strategy in Kerala, Modiji goes to a church, however stays silent on the assaults on them.”
(Edited by Gitanjali Das)
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