PM Modi went to Baghpat to take credit for UPA-era project: Rahul Gandhi

NEW DELHI: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alleging that he visited Baghpat to take credit score for a mission envisaged all through the erstwhile UPA government however did not spare any concept for the protesting sugarcane farmers.

In a tweet in Hindi, he said the Prime Minister zoomed past the fields of sugarcane farmers of Uttar Pradesh without sparing any concept for other folks like Udaiveer Singh.

UP के गन्ना किसान सोच रहे हैं कि UPA काल की परियोजना का श्रेय लेने आए प्रधानमंत्रीजी रोड शो करते हुए उनके खेतों को… https://t.co/sg73CHJ3oF

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) 1527412585000

Sixty-year-old Singh, sitting on a dharna tough cost of dues via sugar generators and against the hike in rural power tariffs, died on Friday.

Congress communications in fee Randeep Surjewala also attacked the Prime Minister for inaugurating the Eastern Peripheral Expressway, barely 30 kilometres clear of the farmers protest website.

He asked why the Prime Minister did not pay tribute to Udaiveer Singh.

Surjewala also reminded the Prime Minister of his promise to pay all pending dues of sugarcane farmers inside of 14 days and claimed that round Rs 12,224 crore value in their dues had been pending. He asked whether the prime minister would order sugar mill house owners to clear the dues.