Govt thinks farmers “inferior” to rich businessmen:Rahul in LS


PTI, Jul 11, 2019, 3:05 PM IST

New Delhi: Attacking the Modi government over the “suffering” of farmers, Congress President Rahul Gandhi said it has given them no relief and wondered if it considered them “inferior” to businessmen who have been given concessions and loan waivers running into lakhs of crores.

Union minister Rajnath Singh countered Gandhi’s charge in Lok Sabha, as he blamed the long rule of the Congress for the plight of farmers and asserted that no prime minister has done as much for peasants as has Narendra Modi.

No relief has been given to farmers by the government, he said, claiming that businessmen have been granted concessions of Rs 4.3 lakh crores and loan waivers of Rs 5.5 lakh crore.

He asked why the government thinks farmers are “inferior” to rich businessmen.

This is the first time that Gandhi has raised an issue in the 17th Lok Sabha

In his reply, Singh said the government’s move to give Rs 6000 to farmers will lead to a rise in their income by 20-25 per cent and claimed that more farmers committed suicide before the BJP-led dispensation came to power.

“It is not that the condition of farmers deteriorated in the last one, two or four years. Those who ruled the country for a long time are responsible for their state. The amount of increase in MSP (minimum support price) that our prime minister has effected has not been done by anybody in independent India’s history,” he claimed.

Gandhi said farmers are suffering throughout the country and are in terrible condition in Kerala, he said, adding that one farmer ended his life in Wayanad.

Farmers have been facing threats of immediate eviction from their properties, he said, as banks from which they had taken loans have begun recover process.

18 farmers in Kerala have committed suicide due to this, he added.

Modi had made a lot of promises to farmers and the government should fulfil them, Gandhi said.

As soon as Gandhi finished his speech, other Congress leaders wanted to raise the issue of desertions of MLAs from their party’s ranks in Karnataka and Goa, for which they have blamed the BJP.

With the Speaker not permitting them to speak on the matter, they staged a walkout and were joined by other opposition parties like the TMC and BSP.

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