Virendra Singh, member from Bhadoi in Uttar Pradesh, said while the Congress is talking about the pain of the farmers, their leaders Rahul Gandhi and Jyotiraditya Scindia had no knowledge about farming or agriculturists and cannot even distinguish between bajra, jowar and wheat.
"They have known farmers through books and I have learnt about farmers by toiling in field. I have grown enough food grains, which the seven generations of the Scindia's must have not grown," he said while participating in a discussion on drought situation and farmers' condition.
"They (the Congress) say this is a suit-boot-ki sarkar. For all these years, they thought a King can be born only to a Queen, but that's not the case now. They are not able to digest the fact that a person from humble background has become the Prime Minister," he said.
Targeting Scindia, he said he still is called as "maharaj" even though the world has changed.
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Virendra Singh was responding to Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge's attack on the government in which he questioned what it had done for the farmers.
Kharge said the previous Congress-led government had given a loan waiver of Rs 72,000 crore.
To this, Singh said, "This only benefited the banks and farmers. Bundelkand is a part of both Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. But the condition in the Madhya Pradesh is better than the parts in UP. Scindia conveniently overlooks it.