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Agri minister Radha Mohan Singh pins blame on Congress over 'farm distress'

Singh noted Congress ruled India for about 48 years after Independence, yet it utterly failed to resolve the farm crisis beyond coining empty slogans

Radha Mohan Singh, Rajnath Singh
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Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh at a press conference in New Delhi. Photo: PTI

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh has pinned the blame on the previous Congress regimes for allegedly failing to address issues facing the agricultural sector.

Singh noted Congress ruled India for about 48 years after Independence, yet it utterly failed to resolve the farm crisis beyond coining empty slogans, he told the media here last night.

“Congress merely concentrated on strengthening the hold of one family in the party, while pro-agricultural slogans were coined in the name of helping farmers,” he said replying to a Business Standard query over the opposition’s charge of widespread ‘farm distress’ under the Narendra Modi