India, March 20 -- Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) of being "two anti-farmer parties joining hands against the country's food providers".

His remarks come in the backdrop of the Punjab government's action against farmers late on Wednesday when they bulldozed the temporary structures at the protest sites near the Shambhu and Khanauri borders, where farmers had been protesting for over a year.

Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Kharge accused both parties of being complicit in actions against farmers, recalling the 2017 Mandsaur agitation in Madhya Pradesh where six farmers were killed, and the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri incident, where four protesting farmers...