Congress betrayed farmers, says PM Modi in Punjab
Malot, July 11 (IBNS): In an attempt to reach out to the peasants of Punjab, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday attacked the Congress saying it has betrayed the farmers of the northern state.
While addressing the farmers in Malot, Modi launched an unsparing attack against the Congress and the Gandhi family.
Hitting out at the Congress for not giving sufficient values to the farmers' hard work, the PM said: "The Congress has betrayed farmers and also lied. The Congress has used farmers as a vote bank."
Modi had alleged that the Congress was busy in making schemes to benefit only one family, with a hint to the Gandhi kindred.
He said: "The party which was given responsibility to run the country for 70 years, has only taken advantage of the farmers. Yojanas were announced but the Congress dreamed about the welfare of only one family."
Trying to bring a comparison between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) regimes, Modi highlighted some of the schemes introduced after he sworn-in as the PM in 2014.
Modi claimed the BJP-led central government has fulfilled its promises on Minimum Support Price (MSP).
With few months to go for the next General Elections, the PM also tried to send a message to the army personnel while speaking in Punjab, a bordering state with Pakistan.
Apart from mentioning the MSP promises, Modi highlighted the implementation of One Rank One Pension (OROP) system, which was pending for years.
Despite Modi's hardcore campaign in 2017 Assembly polls, the BJP and its ally Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) had failed to wrest power in Punjab.
The Congress, under the leadership of Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, emerged as the dominant party in the northern state.
Modi's Punjab visit also received a counter-attack from the Congress.
Punjab CM Capt. Amarinder Singh took to Twitter to urge the PM to announce loan waiver for the farmers. Singh's tweet was not bereft of taunts at Modi's farmers' rally.
Singh's tweet reads, ".@narendramodi ji, good to know that you’ll be addressing Punjab farmers today. Please use the opportunity to announce loan waiver & full implementation of Swaminathan report. Our distressed farmers will be braving the heat to hear something +ve from you. Pls don’t let them down."
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.@narendramodi ji, good to know that you’ll be addressing Punjab farmers today. Please use the opportunity to announce loan waiver & full implementation of Swaminathan report. Our distressed farmers will be braving the heat to hear something +ve from you. Pls don’t let them down.
— Capt.Amarinder Singh (@capt_amarinder) July 11, 2018
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