JAIPUR: State BJP president Satish Poonia referring to the letter by chief minister Ashok Gehlot to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on farm loan waiver from commercial banks alleged that by putting his responsibility on the central government, the CM has accepted that during the assembly elections 2018, he lied to the farmers of the Rajasthan.
He asked why Gehlot is putting his responsibility on the Centre. He should fulfil his election promise by depositing the loan of the farmers of the state in the commercial and nationalised banks from the treasury of his government with immediate effect or else he should leave the post on moral grounds. In the last two years, more than four dozen farmers have committed suicide due to the breach of promise by the Congress government, he alleged.
Why did not they implement Swaminathan committee report, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had spoken about the entire debt waiver in 10 days. He asked had it not mentioned about agricultural reforms in their manifesto in 2019.