Both BJP and Congress are making efforts to woo the farmers of Madhya Pradesh which is going to polls later this month. While Congress has promised to waive farm loans up to Rs 2 lakh, halve farmers’ electricity dues and bonus on 17 agriculture commodities, BJP talks of new Madhya Pradesh.
In an election campaign Rahul Gandhi said, “Today Punjab and Haryana are known for their farming…. I want Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh also to become farming giants in five years… let people across the country know that their food comes from Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.”
Reacting to the Congress manifesto Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan dismissed it, saying the grand old party “never fulfil their promises”. “Even Indira Gandhi Ji and Rajiv Gandhi Ji had promised to remove poverty but did not do it,” the chief minister added.
