Newly appointed Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot sounded the poll bugle for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections while speaking to India Today TV's Rajdeep Sardesai and hinted that the mega battle next year will be all about unemployment and the agrarian crisis and how BJP never talks about the "bread and butter issues" and instead discusses Hanuman's caste.

Pilot told India Today TV, "People have already realised that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) went back on its promise of job creation and boosting the agricultural sector. They have realised that instead, the ruling party brings Yogi Adityanath to discuss Hanuman's caste and what not."

He added, "People can now see through this rhetoric of communal politics."

When asked if this will be the Congress's focus for its 2019 campaign, Pilot said, "The youth and farmers of the country, they have been left high and dry while they were promised a lot."

Speaking about the unemployment crisis in the country, Pilot added, "A jobless GDP growth will help no one."

"Our primary concerns are the farmers of this country who need to be taken care of. Waiving farm loans is a pragmatic approach to help this section," said Pilot.

The Rajasthan Deputy CM also observed that waiving farm loans won't lead to any fiscal crisis in the country. "I would in fact want a pan-India farm loan waiver, but it is not possible at this point."

Rajasthan was the fourth Congress-ruled state to waive farm loans and the third this month after Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

One of the key reasons that Congress managed to overthrow the ruling BJP in these three states was its promise of waiving all farm loans upto Rs 2 lakh.