Madhya Pradesh polls: Rahul Gandhi reiterates loan waiver vow

Rahul reiterated his party’s resolve of an agricultural loan waiver within ten days of coming to power in MP.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi  (File | EPS)
Congress President Rahul Gandhi (File | EPS)

BHOPAL:  Congress national president Rahul Gandhi addressed three poll rallies in Assembly election-bound Madhya Pradesh on Friday, reiterating his party’s claim of issuing a loan waiver to the state’s farmers within ten days of coming to power.

Seventeen days after his two-day tour to the Malwa-Nimar region, Rahul toured the Mahakoshal and Bundelkhand regions, addressing three rallies in Deori (Sagar), Barghat (Seoni) and Mandla, but cancelled the road-show in Shahdol, owing to the party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting in New Delhi.

Hitting out at the Narendra Modi government at the Centre and the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in the state, Rahul raised array of issues including the Rafale jet deal, demonetisation, the Vyapam scam and claimed that health and education had gone out of the reach of poorer sections in MP.

While Rahul reiterated his party’s resolve of an agricultural loan waiver within ten days of coming to power in MP, he also promised to implement the Land Acquisition Bill, the Panchayat (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act and the Tribal Rights Bill.

“All the three important laws which have not been implemented in MP will be enforced in the state once the Congress is voted to power, as we want to protect the farmers, tribals and Dalits against the snatching of their land by rich businessmen and industrialists, who are friends of PM Modi,” he maintained.

While attacking the PM over demonetisation and “allowing” rich businessmen and industrialists to escape the country after having defaulted on their bank loans, Rahul said once the Congress government comes to power, the doors of banks will be opened for youngsters, farmers and small traders.

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