Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday slammed the Congress governments for repeatedly "cheating farmers" by making "fake promises" on their loan waiver schemes and transferring the money to their cronies who were not eligible for the benefit.

"The Congress keeps talking about farmers. What has it done for them? In Karnataka, it formed a government by making fake promises to farmers. But now it's asking them to pay up or face imprisonment. When farmers turned up at their doors, they shooed them away calling them goons," Modi said in his public address at Jhabua.