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The 'loan waiver card ' , the trick to lure farmers, has been played. ~Preet In an attempt to snatch the farmers' votes, the UP Congress General Secretary, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, in the Congress election manifesto called the 'Unnati Vidhan', which was released on February 9th, 2022, in Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, promised to waive the loans of the farmers within 10 days of coming into power. She also promised to bring about a scheme to bring in order the stray cattle issue.  Other than this she said to put in place a sub quota for OBC- communities and to give the position of Home Minister to a Dalit. The loan waiver promise has been the prime marketing strategy of political parties to keep farmers on their side and yet again the same trick has been played in the ongoing assembly election of Uttar Pradesh and that of other states. This might be a good method to gather votes, but most of the time these promises remains promises and are not fulfilled, but ye