Congress’s Pawan Khera says ‘Narendra Modi didn’t do anything for farmers, remembering them before Lok Sabha election’  

Pawan Khera.

The Congress, on Sunday, took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi after he launched a money-transfer scheme for small and marginal farmers, asserting that he needs a “face-saver” before the general election as he did not do anything for them during his rule. Modi launched the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi on Sunday.

Congress spokesman Pawan Khera said the government is now remembering farmers as Congress president Rahul Gandhi keeps reminding it about them and that the states ruled by the opposition party have taken measures to benefit peasants.

“He (Modi) needs a face-saver. This (scheme) is nothing more than that,” Khera said at a press conference and claimed that such pre-poll measures do not work as they did not benefit the Congress as well before the last Lok Sabha election.

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