HUMNABAD (K'TAKA): BJP chief Amit Shah today demanded that Congress president Rahul Gandhi prove his charge that the Narendra Modi government waived loans taken by industrialists.What Rahul Gandhi is saying is incorrect, Shah said and demanded that the Congress president make public any document which mentions that loans to industries were written off. "I want to clarify one thing... one statement that the Congress president repeatedly makes is that the BJP waived thousands of crores, lakhs of crores of loans taken by industries. "If he (Rahul Gandhi) has any records anywhere that industries' loans have been waived, let him make it public... What he is saying is wrong," the BJP national president said.He said that tax had not been waived for industries, but it has "only been reduced a bit. "During Siddaramaiah's tenure, about 3,781 farmers across Karnataka committed suicide, but he is busy in the politics of appeasement.

Source: Economic Times February 25, 2018 14:03 UTC