<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Congress President Rahul Gandhi today alleged that NDA government has ignored the interests of farmers but has waived  loans of industrialists amounting to nearly 2.5 lakh crore rupees.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Addressing workers of the party's OBC department in New Delhi, Mr Gandhi said people who work hard behind the scene are never benefited and the fruits of their toil are enjoyed by others. </div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">He claimed that the non-performing assets of banks have gone up to 1,000 crore rupees. He also said that the Congress party recognises the strength of the backward classes and wants to empower them by bringing them forward in politics.</div>''<div class="yj6qo" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>