Modi government has cheated farmers : Congress

The Congress on Saturday attacked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre and accused it of cheating farmers and surrendering to big industrialists.

Addressing a press conference here, state unit President Raj Babbar and senior leader Randeep Surjewala said that in the three years it has been in power, the BJP government has added to the miseries of the farmers.

They also claimed that 14,000 farmers had committed suicide in India in 2016, which was two thousand more than the number in 2014, when the Narendra Modi government took over.