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The Congress’s appeal to the President has two crore signatures urging his intervention for repealing the three controversial laws.

Congress leaders led by Rahul Gandhi, marching to the Rashtrapati Bhavan, were stopped by the police before a small delegation was allowed to enter the presidential palace to submit to President Ram Nath Kovind a memorandum seeking his intervention for the withdrawal of the farm laws against which thousands of farmers have been protesting near Delhi for nearly a month. Mr Gandhi’s sister, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and several other leaders, were taken into preventive custody by the police and sent away in a bus to a police station after they were stopped. They’re expected to be released shortly.

The appeal to the President has two crore marks, encouraging his intercession for revoking the three dubious laws.

“I need to tell the Prime Minister that these ranchers won’t return home until these homestead laws are revoked. The public authority ought to gather a joint meeting of parliament and reclaim these laws. Resistance groups remain with ranchers and workers,” Mr. Gandhi said subsequent to meeting the President. He additionally assaulted PM Modi and the public authority, saying there was “no vote based system” in India and the individuals who faced the PM were named fear mongers, “regardless of whether it was (RSS boss) Mohan Bhagwat”.

“Any contradiction against this administration is delegated having components of fear. We have embraced this walk to voice our help for the ranchers,” Priyanka Gandhi Vadra stated, sitting out and about.

Presently, Ms. Gandhi-Vadra again hit out at the middle, considering the public authority a “heathen”. “At times they state we are frail to such an extent that we don’t qualify as Opposition and here and there, they state that we are incredible to the point that we have made lakhs of ranchers camp at the outskirt (of Delhi) for a month. They should initially choose what we are,” she told correspondents from inside the green, DTC transport in which she and different pioneers were kept.

“It is just plain wrong to utilize the sort of names they utilized for ranchers. In the event that the public authority is calling them enemies of nationals, at that point the public authority is a heathen,” she said.

Prior to beginning the walk from focal Delhi’s Vijay Chowk, Mr. Gandhi met with senior Congress pioneers at the gathering base camp where pioneers gave discourses on the ranch laws.

“Just the pioneers, who have consent, will be permitted (to go to Rashtrapati Bhavan),” cop Pragya said.

Resistance groups, which attempted to obstruct the ranch bills in parliament, had prior mentioned the President not to sign on the bills. The bills, they had stated, were passed in the Rajya Sabha in an undemocratic way. The President, notwithstanding, had given his consent to each of the three bills. Rahul Gandhi was essential for the resistance’s gathering with President Kovind on December 9.

A huge number of ranchers, who have overcome water guns, poisonous gas, and police blockades, started their dissent a month ago against the homestead laws, pointed toward getting rid of go-betweens and permitting them to sell produce anyplace in the nation.

The public authority has been asking the ranchers to take part in additional discussions to end the gridlock. On Wednesday, rancher bunches said they are prepared to hold with the public authority talks yet are trusting that the public authority will have conversations with a receptive outlook and present solid propositions that are adequate.