Union minister terms Madhya Pradesh govt's farm loan waiver as charity.

A day after Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath launched the Rs 50,000 farm loan waiver scheme in the state, union minister of state for agriculture and farmers' welfare Krishna Raj said whenever Congress comes to power, it doles out khairat (charity). The union minister when queried about whether the Narendra Modi government too was planning to announce national farm loan waiver ahead of Lok Sabha polls on the lines of Congress governments in MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, told journalists in Bhopal on Wednesday, "Congress ki sarkar jab bhi aayi hai, usne khairat batne ka kaam kiya hai, swavlambi banane ka kaam nahi kiya...

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