FILE PHOTO - Rahul Gandhi, President of India's main opposition Congress party, speaks during a news conference at his party's headquarters in New Delhi, India, December 11, 2018. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi pressed Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday to write off farm loans to help growers reeling from lower food prices, ratcheting up demands for debt write-offs ahead of a general election that must be held by May.
Gandhi's Congress party, which last week beat Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in three key state elections, on Monday waived farm loans, a poll promise, in the central states of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
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