Will waive farm loans within 10 days: Rahul Gandhi in MP's Mandsaur

Congress president Rahul Gandhi promised on Wednesday to waive farm loans within 10 days of coming to power in Madhya Pradesh, projecting his party as farmer-friendly in Mandsaur district where six people were killed in police firing during a protest a year ago.

“We want to change your lives…You will get the reward for your hard work,” media reports quoted Gandhi as saying in the politically crucial state that will vote to elect a new government later this year.

Gandhi also met the families of the victims of the June 6 police firing and said his party, if elected to power, will launch a probe into the incident.

“The probe report has not come out even after one year of the Mandsaur firing…Today I tried to share the pain of the victims’ families by spending some time with them,” Gandhi posted on Twitter.

Demanding better prices for their products, farmers in 2017 held state-wide protests that were marred by violence, with Mandsaur emerging as the epicentre of the stir.

In Wednesday’s rally, Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of lying to the poor, and misleading the youth, who were promised "two crore" jobs.