Will not let Narendra Modi sleep until farm loans are waived, says Rahul Gandhi; accuses PM of favouring industrialists
FirstpostCongress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the lack of farm loan waivers for the four years that the BJP has been in power, and said that the government had only worked for “15-20 industrialists” and ignored the marginalised groups. Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the lack of farm loan waivers for the four years that the BJP has been in power, and said that the government had only worked for “15 to 20 industrialists” and ignored the marginalised groups. Rahul also claimed that Modi had not waived a single rupee of the farmers’ loans and said, “We will not let the prime minister sleep until he waives loans of farmers; all the Opposition parties will jointly demand this.” He said that Modi had excused loans of industrialists and rich people while ignoring the farming community. The choice to steal was made, during demonetisation.” He also said that not only the Congress-led Opposition, but farmers across the country would demand that the prime minister waive farm loans**.