"Capitalist-dependant" Modi govt created "mistrust": Lalu on farm laws repeal

RJD supremo Lalu Prasad on Monday accused the "capitalist-dependant" Narendra Modi government of creating an atmosphere of "mistrust" with its description of agitating farmers as "terrorists and anti-national". Prasad, who is keeping indifferent health for quite some time, congratulated farmers who had agitated for withdrawal of three contentious farm laws, calling their struggle "the longest, the most peaceful and the most democratic Satyagraha".

"The capitalist-dependant government and its ministers called farmers terrorists, Khalistani and anti-national in order to destroy the country's unity and harmony. They (the government) created an atmosphere of mistrust in majority of the working class (shramjivi) people," he wrote on Twitter in Hindi.

Prasad's tweet came hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced repeal of three contentious farm laws, which had triggered an unprecedented year-long protest by the farming community at the borders of the national capital. The politically influential Yadav community form the bulwark of RJD's vote bank in Bihar.