Farmers taking cots away are called thieves, but Mallya escapes with 9,000 crore called a defaulter, question Rahul Gandhi

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi came up with a different way to defend UP farmers who walked away with khaats at the end of Khaat Sabha in Deoria on Tuesday.

Farmers taking away cots are being branded as ‘thieves’ while industrialist like Vijay Mallya  who escaped from the country is called a ‘defaulter’, Rahul questioned.

Rahul made this remark during his door-to-door campaign in Sahjani village of Gorakhpur where he pledged for farmer’s support to Congress’s campaign to demand a loan waiver package for them.

Throughout his stay, Congress vice president attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling his policies allegedly anti-people.

He claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi waived loans to the tune of Rs 1.10 lakh crore of "big industrialists and rich people" in the past two years while he forgot the plight of farmers who are carrying the burden of the entire country.

“In the past two years, Narendra Modi has waived loans of Rs 1.10 lakh crore. Not of small farmers but of big industrialists and rich people. If Modiji wants to waive loans of the rich, it is his decision. He is the Prime Minister and he can do so. We are not against it.”