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Bengaluru, Jan 4: Slamming Prime Minister Narendra Modi for dubbing JD(S)-Congress coalition government’s Rs 40,000 crore farm loan scheme as 'lollipop' to farmers, Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President Dinesh Gundu Rao said the Prime Minister’s 'anti-farmer mindset' has become evident to all.
Addressing a news conference, the KPCC chief said Modi and his finance minister Arun Jaitely have continuously refused to aid the farmers despite their grave distress and had the audacity to exhibit his anti-famer mindset against the farmers.
Rao alleged that the Prime Minister could not fulfil any of his promises whether be it bringing back black money, job creation, inviting investments, economic revolution or relief to farmers and simply fooling people by his glib talk.
"Modi government has been hiding the facts while mentioning the loan waivers scheme in the State," he said.
The H D Kumaraswamy-led coalition government has now come out with a crop loan waiver of Rs40,000 crore benefiting 44 lakh farmers, he said.
The state government has set aside a sum of Rs 6500 crore for farm loan waiver in 2018-19, Rs 8656 crore in 2019-10, Rs7621 crore in 2020-21, Rs 7131 crore in 2021-22.
The BJP-led NDA government had done nothing to give relief and financial support to distressed farmers, he alleged.
The state Congress on Friday 'advised' PWD Minister and JD(S) leader H D Revanna not to comment on certain matters related to the coalition government openly.
A few days ago, Revanna had allegedly said he will not allow the Congress party to interfere in his department as he never interferes in others' departments. He also hit out at the Congress for taking away the home department from deputy chief minister G Parameshwara.
“I am humbly urging him not to give such statements so openly," Rao said while replying to a question on Revanna’s stand on alleged interference in his department.
The KPCC Chief also admitted that there were some issues pertaining to finalising the appointment of chairpersons to boards and corporations, though Congress brought out the list long ago.