Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti on Tuesday said Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and others in her party do not have the right to speak about farmers and democracy, the comments coming in the backdrop of recent violence in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district.

Uma Bharti in a series of tweets in Hindi said Congress general secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh Mrs. Vadra and other Congress leaders do not have the right to speak on issues over which they are speaking.

1) उत्तरप्रदेश की प्रभारी एवं @INCIndia की महासचिव श्रीमती वाड्रा एवं अन्य कोंग्रेस के नेताओ को जिन मुद्दों पर बोलने का अधिकार नही हैं उन पर ना बोले ।@priyankagandhi

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— Uma Bharti (@umasribharti) October 5, 2021

The senior BJP leader claimed that agriculture and farmers were “left behind” because immediately after independence, (Mahatma) Gandhiji’s dream of considering agriculture as the country’s main economic base was “destroyed” by the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.

The Congress, which imposed an Emergency in the country, has lost the right to pronounce the word democracy Congress leaders and workers burnt 10,000 Sikhs alive. So, the word non-violence doesn’t suit Congress, she further claimed.

3) देश में emergency लगाने वाली @INCIndia पार्टी , अपने मुँह से लोकतंत्र का उच्चारण करने का अधिकार खो चुकी हैं ।

4) 1984 के दंगो में @INCIndia के नेताओ एवं कार्यकर्ताओं ने ही 10000 सिखों को ज़िन्दा भूना था , कोंग्रेस के मुँह से अहिंसा शब्द शोभा नही देता ।

— Uma Bharti (@umasribharti) October 5, 2021

Bharti said her suggestion to Congress leaders is to have a positive attitude and cooperate with the (central) government to solve the problems of farmers.

Earlier in the day, Priyanka Gandhi shared a video on Twitter, which showed a group of protesting farmers being mowed down by an SUV.

.@narendramodi जी आपकी सरकार ने बग़ैर किसी ऑर्डर और FIR के मुझे पिछले 28 घंटे से हिरासत में रखा है।

अन्नदाता को कुचल देने वाला ये व्यक्ति अब तक गिरफ़्तार नहीं हुआ। क्यों? pic.twitter.com/0IF3iv0Ypi

— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) October 5, 2021

“@narendramodi Ji your government has detained me for the past 28 hours without any order or FIR. Why the person who ran over farmers has not been arrested yet?” she said in a tweet in Hindi.

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— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) October 5, 2021

Priyanka Gandhi was detained in Sitapur (Uttar Pradesh) on Monday on her way to Lakhimpur Kheri, where eight people died and several others were injured on Sunday in the bloodiest clash since the farmers’ protest over the Centre’s agri-laws began last year.

On Tuesday, the Congress general secretary took to Twitter to ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi why the person behind the killing of four farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri has not been arrested yet while she has been under “detention for the past 28 hours” without any order or FIR.

(With PTI inputs)