"Under BJP rule, 30 farmers forced to commit suicide every day": Rahul Gandhi
Jan 31, 2024
New Delhi [India], January 31 : Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday slammed the Central Government and said that under the rule of the BJP, which came to power by promising to double the income of farmers, 30 farmers are forced to commit suicide every day.
In a post on X, Rahul Gandhi alleged that the Modi government has waived off the loans of industrialists Rs 7.5 lakh crore in 10 years.
"Today, under the rule of BJP, which came to power by promising to double the income of farmers, 30 farmers are forced to commit suicide every day. When the debt on the farmers of the country is 60 per cent more than in 2014, then the Modi government has waived off the loans of industrialists Rs 7.5 lakh crore in 10 years. Private insurance companies, which withheld Rs 2700 crores of farmers' share in the crop insurance scheme, are themselves earning profits Rs 40,000 crores," he said.
Rahul further emphasized that Congress aims to reduce the cost of agriculture and provide fair prices to the farmers for their crops.
"Farmers are struggling even for MSP amid skyrocketing agricultural costs due to expensive fertilizers, expensive seeds, expensive irrigation and expensive electricity. Without proper MSP, farmers are incurring a loss of Rs 200 per quintal of wheat and Rs 680 per quintal of paddy," the Congress leader added.
"Congress aims to reduce the cost of agriculture and provide fair price to the farmers for their crops because the path to prosperity of the farmers is their economic self-reliance and this is the real justice for them,' he added.
Notably, yesterday Rahul Gandhi interacted with the farmers in Bihar's Purnia while his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra passed the state.
"Our government will be a 'government of farmers', not of some 'government industrialists'," Rahul said.
