Rahul has limited knowledge on agriculture, should not advise us: Shah

Blaming previous Congress-led governments for the problems faced by farmers today, BJP president Amit Shah Saturday had a dig at Rahul Gandhi, asking how someone who has limited knowledge about agriculture gives advice on it.

"Rahul Baba claims doubling the income of farmers is not possible and mocks us. I want to say we are BJP workers and we don't joke on such issues," Shah said.

"Income will double with increased production and you'll see that (happening) by 2022," he said, adding, "Rahul Baba, who does not know if potato is cultivated or manufactured in a factory, advises us on farmers," he said.

Addressing his party's farmers convention in Gorakhpur, Shah, who asked his partymen to raise hands and take a pledge to make Narendra Modi prime minister again in 2019, said, "If Rahul Baba takes name of four crops of Kharif and Rabi without paper, we won't ask him any question."
In the state capital as well, the BJP president targeted the Congress president, saying "Rahul Baba makes fun of us, says farmers debt has to be waived. We have done and shown in Uttar Pradesh; you (Congress) had promised in Karnataka that Rs 48,000-crore worth (farm loans) will be waived but could manage only Rs 1,800 crore."