Badal misleading farmers, says Capt
Monday, 29/08/2016
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Chandigarh : Reiterating that the Congress government would waive farmers’ loans, Punjab Congress chief Capt Amarinder Singh today lashed out at CM Parkash Singh Badal for saying that no government could implement the waiver.
Capt Amarinder said that with the state pushed into a debt trap of over Rs 1.25 lakh crore, nobody expects Badal to waive loans.
“A government that cannot pay salaries and pensions is not expected to waive loans as it needs financial skills which Badal has already exhausted for amassing personal wealth,” he said, while promising that with better financial management, the state could afford complete loan waiver for farmers and he would do that as he had done that in the past also.
Amarinder reminded Badal that the NDA government at the Centre, of which his party is a part, has written off bad debts to the tune of Rs 114 lakh crore of corporate houses.
“If you can waive such a humongous amount, why can’t you do the same for farmers’ loans which amount to less than Rs 1 lakh crore,” he asked. “If industry can be provided stimulus, so can the farmers. We will do that,” he said.
