Addressing the divisional level farmers' meet organised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at Dhanbad, Ravindra Rai, the party’s former state president accused Congress of deceiving the farmers and misleading them. The meet was hosted with a single agenda of extending support to the recently passed farm laws.

Speaking at the event Rai maintained that the farm bills were a pro-farmer policy that aims at benefitting the agrarian community across India.

Addressing a crowd of over 500 people, Rai as the chief speaker of the divisional farmers' meet organized at the Zila Parishad ground, charged, “Whenever the country was at the crossroad, Congress chose to play politics of deceit and have stabbed them.”He further accused the grand old party of thwarting attempts of the present government to strengthen Indian democracy after 1974’s total revolution and Congress imposed emergency.“At a time when the central government is working hard to uplift the status of the farmers, an unnerved Congress is trying to mislead the farmers.” accused Rai.

He added, “In fact, Congress has always betrayed the farmers and is doing the same again.” He quickly asserted, “Any attempt to mislead the farmers is not going to succeed. The unprecedented mandate given to the BJP under the leadership of Narendra Modi is an example of the farmers’ consent to the steps being taken by the government.”

When asked about the objective of organizing the farmers’ meet he answered, “The farmers, in general, are with the government. We want to expose the design of Congress-led opposition, which is trying to create confusion, by showing that the farmers are discontent.”

Extolling about the work done by the BJP government in favour of the farmers he highlighted the implementation of the suggestions made in the Swaminathan Report submitted during the Congress regime, by the central government. He also spoke about the honorarium being provided to farmers across the country.

He ended his speech by accusing Congress of attempting to increase its declining support base, by misleading the farmers. He added that his party would continue with their farmer meet programmes till they expose the fake agitators in the name of farmers.

Dhanbad MP, PN Singh and different MLAs of the party including Bokaro MLA, Biranchi Naryan; Dhanbad MLA Raj Sinha; Sindri MLA, Indrajit Mahto and Nirsa MLA, Aparna Sengupta were also present at the farmers’ meet.