Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) condemns 'atrocities on farmers'

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GUWAHATI: The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) condemned atrocities on local farmers by the BJP government.

In a statement issued to the media on Thursday, the APCC said, "At a time when the entire country has been standing with farmers, the BJP government in Assam has started violent attacks and lathicharge on local farmers in Nagaon. In the past few days, we have seen that the BJP government led by Narendra Modi has directly ignored and neglected the plight of the farmers. The protesting farmers have been demanding the Government to repeal the new farm laws and have been staging protests all over the country. "Similarly, in Nagaon, we have witnessed that local farmers were being lathicharged by the BJP Government and its police for trying to protect their land from being handed over to corporates by the BJP-led government. As per news reports, the farmers, of which most were women, had to face the police lathicharge in Nagaon's Mikirbamuni gaon as their agricultural land was allegedly being handed over to some companies despite repeated appeal by the farmers. An army of policemen were deployed in the area to evict the farmers from the land where they have been farming for decades. Even women were not spared from the lathicharge.

"The APCC condemns this act by the BJP Government and assures the farmers that we stand with them."

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