Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Thursday hit back at Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s recent allegations of him being an ineffectual Union Agriculture Minister, remarking instead that while PM Narendra Modi had promised to double the farmers’ income, it was the number of farmer suicides that had increased significantly during the BJP’s ten-year reign at the Centre.
Mr. Pawar, the former Union Agriculture Minister in the erstwhile Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government, was targeted by Mr. Shah at the latter’s rally in Sambhajinagar earlier this week.
The NCP leader, who was holding a rally in Lonavala (part of the Maval Lok Sabha), lambasted the PM’s tall assurances which came to nothing on ground.
