Rajasthan: Congress goes again on farm mortgage waiver promise, farmers have mortgage burden of over 1,20,000 crores

While senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi tasks himself as a pro-farmer chief, championing their trigger and making guarantees of farm mortgage waiver, his celebration seldom honours commitments made by him. After Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, the farmers in Congress-ruled Rajasthan, too, have realised that Rahul Gandhi’s guarantees of on the spot mortgage waiver have been nothing however empty ballot rhetorics as they’ve began receiving attachment notices for the cost of their loans.
Before the Rajasthan Assembly elections, Rahul Gandhi had introduced a farm mortgage waiver inside 10 days of coming to energy. However, regardless of being within the authorities for over two years, the farmers within the state are nonetheless ready for the Congress authorities to fulfil their chief’s promise.
A report by Aaj Tak talked about Ramgopal Jat, a farmer within the Jaipur district, who took a mortgage for Rs 3.5 lakhs and Rs 6 lakhs about 5 years in the past. He has thus far paid an curiosity of over Rs 6 lakhs to his financial institution. Yet, he acquired an attachment discover from his financial institution, asking him to pay Rs 13,07,756. Ramgopal laments he doesn’t have cash to repay the mortgage and his financial institution has refused to grant him any additional extension.
Similar is the predicament of lots of of different farmers in Rajasthan who have been hoping to get their loans waived off after Congress shaped authorities within the state however have been left dissatisfied after the celebration washed off its arms from the guarantees made by its foremost chief. The Ashok Gehlot authorities within the state has not even spared an 80-year-old Gangaram, who acquired an attachment discover for his mortgage of Rs 8 lakhs that has now swelled to Rs 14 lakhs within the final 5 years at 14 per cent curiosity.
In the run-up to the 2018 meeting elections, Rahul Gandhi and different Congress leaders repeatedly trotted out their dedication of forgoing farm loans as soon as their celebration shaped the federal government within the state. Shortly after coming to energy in Rajasthan, the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress authorities waived off loans to small and marginal farmers who had sought loans solely from the Bhoomi Vikas Bank and Co-operative Banks however left different farmers to fend for themselves.
Congress had promised to waive off farm loans if voted to energy in Rajasthan , picture through The Hindu About 95 per cent of the farmers in Rajasthan took loans from authorities and personal banks, however they weren’t thought of for the mortgage waiver. Uday Lal Anjana, the Minister of Co-operation in Rajasthan, turned his again on the promise of granting mortgage waivers to farmers within the state. He mentioned his authorities by no means promised to grant mortgage waivers to all of the farmers within the state. The Aaj Tak report says that farmers in Rajasthan owe a staggering debt of Rs 1,20,979 crores to banks. As a consequence, the Congress authorities has lamented that it has no cash in its treasury to waive off loans of each farmer within the state.
Congress modus operandi of exploiting farmers with false guarantees to realize votes
This is the modus operandi witnessed in lots of Congress-ruled states the place Rahul Gandhi guarantees to waive off loans to lure farmers into voting for his celebration. When the Congress authorities is shaped within the state, it bails on its commitments saying it by no means made any promise of mortgage waivers and its treasury to not fats sufficient to dole out waivers to every farmer within the state.
In February 2020, the then chief minister Kamal Nath admitted to the Madhya Pradesh Congress authorities’s failure in delivering the tall guarantees of farm mortgage waiver made by their supremo Rahul Gandhi in the course of the Assembly elections marketing campaign in 2018. Govind Singh, the General Administration Minister in Kamal Nath’s cabinet apologised whereas talking at a authorities perform.
A yr earlier than Kamal Nath’s admission, Congress minister Digvijay Singh’s youthful brother Lakshman Singh had additionally conceded that Rahul Gandhi’s fraud guarantees of farm-loan waivers have been nothing however a mere gimmick to con poor farmers to vote for Congress in Madhya Pradesh. The Congress loyalist had then capitulated that it was a mistake on Rahul Gandhi’s half to vow a whole mortgage waiver inside 10 days if voted to energy.