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Land ordinance unacceptable: Sonia Gandhi
New Delhi, March 27
Congress president Sonia
Gandhi on Friday accused the government of favouring industrialists in
the land acquisition ordinance, which she said was an "unabashed display
of half truths".
"Regrettable that anyone championing the voice
of the distressed farmer and needy farm labourer is being branded
'anti-national' by a myopic (Narendra) Modi government bending backwards
to favour select industrialists," Gandhi said in a letter to union
minister Nitin Gadkari.
Gandhi was responding to Gadkari's letter seeking the opposition's support for the land acquisition bill.
She
also noted that the "fundamental difference" between the Congress and
the BJP was in the way the two parties understand "farmer's distress and
loss of livelihood" by acquiring land without safeguards.
"Being pro-farmer is not being anti-growth," she added.