Shah slams Cong over farm distress, says party treated farmers as vote bank

Shah claimed Congress was principally responsible for the farm distress

Amply indicating that farmers’ issue would occupy centre-stage in run up to the crucial 2019 Lok Sabha polls, ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah today blamed the previous Congress-led governments at the Centre for the farm distress and charged the party with treating farmers as vote banks.

Addressing the inaugural day of the 2-day BJP Kisan Morcha’s national convention at Gorakhpur this evening, Shah said the country’s farmers were regarded as vote banks by the previous dispensations preceding the current Narendra Modi government at the Centre.

“It is unfortunate that despite being an agrarian economy with the farm sector contributing