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Congress gets recharged with land bill ammo
After suffering a series of mortifying poll reverses, the smile was back
in the Congress as senior party leaders launched a full-scale attack
against the BJP-led NDA government on the land acquisition ordinance
here Wednesday.
Addressing hundreds of farmers here at Jantar
Mantar, over a dozen Grand Old Party leaders, including Jairam Ramesh,
Ajay Maken, Digvijay Singh, Raj Babbar, Deepender Hooda and Jyotiraditya
Scindia, were full of enthusiasm - a factor that had gone missing after
the party's drubbing in the 2014 general elections and the state
elections, especially being wiped off in Delhi.
As the crowd kept
shouting "Congress zindabad" slogans, The leaders spoke with enthusiasm
and looked hopeful of public support in their opposition to the land
acquisition ordinance of the Narendra Modi government.
"Congress
will get a new 'sanjeevni' (life-giving medicine) from here," Ramesh
said amidst loud cheers from other leaders, party workers and farmers.
He said 80 percent farmers could make or break a government.