TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said his party would waive farm loans and give a big push to the food processing industry if voted to power in the Lok Sabha elections.
Alleging that the Centre’s crop insurance scheme is ‘aimed at taking away the hard-earned money of farmers to fill up the pockets of big businessmen’, he promised that the Congress would initiate a number of steps to deal with farmers’ distress and unemployment.
Gandhi said, his party’s governments in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh waived farm loans within a few days of coming to power.
The Congress president, who was addressing the party’s first rally in Patna in about three decades at the Gandhi Maidan, repeated his slogan ‘chowkidaar hi chor hai’ (the watchman is the thief) in an allusion to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
