‘Offering lollipops’: PM Modi on Congress’ loan waiver promises

Ridiculing the Karnataka government scheme to waive farm loans, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said it benefited a handful of farmers and the decision will go down in history as one of the “most cruel jokes” on them. The Prime Minister said those in power think that just because they have formed a government by hook or by crook, they can get away with anything. The Congress has been portraying Modi-government as “anti-farmer” and had wooed voters in the recently concluded assembly polls in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan with farm loan waivers.