PM writes letter to beneficiaries of loan waiver

LUCKNOW: Seeking to cash in on the massive farm loan waiver scheme ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has written a letter to its beneficiaries across the country "seeking their support".

"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has written a letter to farmers to seek their support. The letter will be reaching them soon. The debt waiver of over Rs 70,000 crore has benefited crores of farmers in the country and they will be reached individually by the partymen," AICC General Secretary Digvijay Singh said here.

With the Lok Sabha polls just months away, the Congress is all out to woo the people especially farmers in the Hindi heartland by explaining to them the welfare measures being initiated by the UPA dispensation.

The Congress, which is expected to enter into an alliance with Samajawadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, also plans to include at least two to three members of the beneficiaries' family into the party.

"The list of all the beneficiaries, whose debt were waived by the Centre will be available on the website of banks in next few days," a senior party leader said.

Admitting that the part has become "city-centric" in the state, state Congress president Rita Bahuguna Joshi said that the party will reach out the rural folk and take the welfare measures of the UPA government to the people's court.