With just a few months to go for the Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi and his party are targetting the ruling Bharatiya Janat Party on rural distress

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi reiterated his promise that his party will not let PM Narendra Modi rest until his governments takes care of issues facing the country's farmers.

Gandhi, in a tweet said, that his Congress party had "managed to wake" the chief ministers of Assam and Gujarat (both are BJP-ruled states) "from their deep slumber".

"PM is still asleep. We will wake him up too," Gandhi also said. Rahul Gandhi's tweet was a reference to recent populist measures announced by the BJP governments in Assam and Gujarat.

The Vijay Rupani government in Gujarat on Tuesday said that it will write off electricity bills of more than Rs 600 crore. The move will benefit farmers as well as commercial and household users.

The Biplab Deb government in Assam on the other hand announced a Rs 600-crore farm loan waiver to benefit around eight lakh farmers.

Both the announcements were made after the newly formed Congress governments in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh announced farm loan waivers. Hence, Rahul Gandhi's "The Congress party has managed to wake the CM's of Assam & Gujarat from their deep slumber" comment today.

The Congress party has managed to wake the CM's of Assam & Gujarat from their deep slumber.



PM is still asleep. We will wake him up too. Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) December 19, 2018

Gandhi's comment today was in line with his party's strategy to target the ruling Bharatiya Janat Party on rural distress. Gandhi, speaking at Parliament on Tuesday (December 18), declared that if the Modi government did not announce a nationwide farm loan waiver by the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the Congress party would make the waivers a prominent part of its election manifesto.