Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday that the Congress considers farmers as a vote bank and were misguiding them in the name of loan waiver.
While addressing a gathering in Palamu, PM Modi said, "Farmers are a vote bank for Congress and for us, farmers are our food providers. This is the difference between Congress and BJP."
"There wouldn't have been a need for farmers to take loans had the previous Congress governments completed the projects that were meant to benefit farmers. First, they forced farmers to take loans, now they're misleading them in the name of loan waiver," he added.
Promoting his government's initiatives for farmers, Modi said that the central government has built 1 crore 25 lakh homes to the people in less than five years. "We didn't make Narendra Modi Awas Yojana, we didn't make Namo Awas Yojana, we didn't make Raghubar Das Awas Yojana, we made Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana so that the next Prime Minister can take the work forward," he said.
Prime Minister Modi laid the foundation stone of North Koel (Mandal Dam) project and Kanhar Stone Pipeline irrigation system earlier in the day.
