Armed with the announcement of farm loan waivers in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh the very day its chief ministers took oath, Congress President Rahul Gandhi promised a similar sop for all farmers across the country, if his party was voted to power. He issued a second promise: Sleepless nights to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, if the government did not address farmers’ issues.
“If the Modi government does not waive farm loans, we guarantee to do so, if voted to power in 2019,” Rahul Gandhi said. He said a united opposition will exert “such pressure on Modi that not a single