Modi misleading farmers, betraying them: Cong

Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress today accused him of "misleading and betraying" the farmers of the country and said he had a "poor track record" in the agriculture sector.

Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill alleged the prime minister was a "dishonest leader", who was once again "spreading propaganda rather than giving definitive answers on farmers' issues".

He said that farmers' suicide rate in UP had increased by 40 per cent since the BJP came to power in the state.

In his rally at Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh today, Modi claimed that the previous governments lacked the will to help farmers, while listing the measures taken by his government for their welfare.

It was for the first time in the country that a government had decided to allow mills to produce ethanol from molasses and sugarcane juice, he said,
Targeting Modi, Shergill said, "Today in UP, the prime minister once again mislead, betrayed the farmers... He should give specific replies on why he has failed the farmers in UP rather than indulging window dressing exercises."