Congress used farmers as vote bank, betrayed them: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a sharp attack on the Congress, accusing it of betraying farmers and using them as vote bank to further the interests of “one particular family”.
He was speaking at the ‘Kisan Kalyan Rally’ at Malout in Punjab. The rally was held to mark the “unprecedented” increase in Minimum Support Price for Kharif crops announced by the Centre recently. Modi said despite toiling hard, farmers had to live a life of despair and despondency for decades because of the policies of the Congress-led governments.
In a veiled attack on the Gandhi family, he said the Congress was “only for one particular family” and how to make them comfortable. “I know why for years you could earn only 10% profit on the cost of inputs incurred by
MALOUT(PUNJAB):
you. I know what was the interest behind this. Farmers are the soul of our nation, they are our ‘annadata’, but the Congress always betrayed them and told them lies . The Congress used them as vote bank,” the PM said.
He said the NDA government was working towards changing this scenario.
Reaching out to the farmers, Modi said, “I salute you for the way you have been filling granaries with record production in the past four years. Be it wheat, paddy, cotton, sugar or pulses, all previous records are bring broken. New records will be set.”