“Can the future of your children be strengthened only by free gas cylinder, free ration, and some money. The government must provide jobs and support businesses, something that is not being done,” she said.Bringing up the last year Lakhimpur Kheri violence, she said Modi did not bother to meet victims of the incident, and came up with an apology to protesting farmers only when elections were round the corner.In the incident, four farmers died after being allegedly hit by vehicles driven by BJP workers. In the ensuing violence, a journalist, two BJP workers and a driver were killed.”The prime minister visited so many countries in the past few years, including Pakistan, but did not go to meet protesting farmers. The prime minister came and apologised for the farm laws just before elections, she said.Why did he wait for a year to do it when during the protests “700 farmers died”, Priyanka Gandhi said, referring to the over a year long agitation by farmers on Delhi’s borders against three central farm laws, which have been repealed.Attacking Yadav, she said she never saw him working for the people in her three years of work in Uttar Pradesh.
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