‘He’s right’: Kamal Nath on Scindia’s remark that MP farm loan not waived fully

On Friday, Scindia while addressing party workers in Bhind had said, “You had promised to waive farm loans of up to Rs 2 lakh. But loans of up to only Rs 50,000 have been waived. Loans of up to Rs 2 lakh should be waived.”

Scindia’s remark came shortly after Congress leader Digvijaya Singh’s, younger brother Laxman Singh, had demanded that the former Congress president Rahul Gandhi must apologise for making the “impossible promise of waiving farm loans within 10 days”.

“You can’t keep the voters guessing. Even the banks are not sure when will they get money and are charging interest,” Singh had said.

Farm loans waiver was one of the major poll plank which Congress had promised ahead of the state assembly elections, last year.

Scindia’s remark had also drawn reaction from the Opposition BJP. “Neither Shivraj, nor people. It’s your (Congress) own people who are showing the mirror to you. Farmers’ tears have dried but they haven’t received money in their accounts,” former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had said.