Giving farmers Rs 17 a day insult to everything they stand, work for: Rahul

New Delhi, February 1

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that the government had destroyed the lives of farmers over the past five years, and that its Interim Budget announcement of “Rs 17 a day” for them was an insult to everything they stood and worked for.

Finance Minister Piyush Goyal, in the Interim Budget on Friday, said farmers would be provided Rs 6,000 per year, which amounted to Rs 16.44 daily, in three instalments under a central government scheme.

“Dear NoMo, 5 years of your incompetence and arrogance has destroyed the lives of our farmers. Giving them Rs 17 a day is an insult to everything they stand and work for,” Gandhi tweeted using hashtag ‘AakhriJumlaBudget’.

Presenting the Interim Budget, Goyal sought to address some of the distress that the farm sector had been facing.

He said the scheme would be “fully funded by the central government”. PTI