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Here are 10 questions that Rahul Gandhi should answer as he meets Rajasthan farmers on January 9th

Nirwa Mehta - 4 January, 2019

Rahul Gandhi must answer these questions on the tall promises he had made to farmers

News Reports

Third debt-ridden farmer commits suicide in Madhya Pradesh, this time in JM Scindia’s constituency

OpIndia Staff - 1 January, 2019

This is the third incident of a farmer committing suicide in the state of Madhya Pradesh as earlier two farmers had ended their lives after the newly elected Congress govt headed by Kamal Nath failed to clear their farm loans

News Reports

Despite Congress promises, Rajasthan farmers unlikely to get waiver certificate till after 2019 elections: Report

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2018

The report suggests that there is no clear timeline yet on how to proceed regarding the loan-waiver scheme and it will take a lot more time than expected to distribute loan waiver certificates to the farmers.

News Reports

Days after Congress govt in MP ‘waives off’ loans, farmer commits suicide because he wasn’t eligible

OpIndia Staff - 22 December, 2018

The family of the deceased farmer allege that he ended his life as he was not entitled to the farm loan waive-off promised by the newly elected Chief Minister Kamal Nath.

News Reports

Second farmer suicide within five days in Congress ruled Karnataka

OpIndia Staff - 21 December, 2018

The Karnataka government had recently admitted that their 44,000 crores farm loan waiver has helped only 800 farmers so far.

News Reports

Karnataka: Indira canteens go ‘hungry’ as their funds get diverted to farmer loan waivers

OpIndia Staff - 20 December, 2018

As per reports, owing to the farm loan waiver schemes, many popular schemes of the Siddaramaiah government have been affected

Politics

Charity needn’t necessarily begin at home – it can just as well end at home too

rohitagarwal - 19 December, 2018

“The answer is staring at your face”, the mendicant said, the wisdom gleaned from 60 years of misrule shining on his face. “Farm loan waivers.” He said.

Media

Reuters quoted ‘source’ to say Modi govt will waive farmer loans on a day Union Minister said there was no such plan

OpIndia Staff - 13 December, 2018

While it is not clear why Reuters did such reporting, people were speculating this could be a fake news spread by the Congress-friendly media on behest of Congress to pressurise Modi government.

Economy and Finance