Congress Waived Nearly 27 Lakh Farm Loans In Madhya Pradesh, BJP Admits
Former Leader Minister Kamal Nath used to be accused of “fraud” over farm mortgage waivers (Document)
Bhopal:
The loans of just about 27 lakh Madhya Pradesh farmers have been waived off all through the 15-month tenure of the Kamal Nath-led Congress govt, the ruling BJP – which had previous alleged a “fraud” in this subject – mentioned Monday.
The admission through the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP govt, which got here to energy previous this 12 months after the dramatic fall of the Congress, got here all through the single-day consultation of the state Meeting.
Agriculture Minister Kamal Patel gave written replies to questions on farm mortgage waivers that were requested through two Congress MLAs – Jaivardhan Singh and Bala Bachchan.
Mr Patel knowledgeable the Space that 26,95,381 instances of farm loans value as much as Rs 1 lakh each and every were waived off. The whole worth of loans waived off, the minister mentioned, used to be round Rs 11,000 crore.
Consistent with the knowledge supplied the loans of round 20.2 lakh farmers have been waived within the first segment by myself. There have been additionally round five.91 lakh instances nonetheless looking ahead to a waiver, the minister mentioned.
In April, after being sworn in because the Agriculture Minister, Mr Patel advised NDTV that it used to be unclear if farmers’ remarkable loans had, certainly been waived.
“Inside two hours of being sworn in as Leader Minister, Kamal Nath signed the report to waive farm loans of round 48 lakh farmers (value Rs 54,000 crore) in step with a ballot promise made through Rahul Gandhi. However simplest waiver certificate were disbursed to eligible farmers. It’s nonetheless now not transparent if the phenomenal loans were waived,” he mentioned.
Mr Patel had additionally prompt the ones farmers who won certificate however now not waivers to hotel instances of fraud and prison conspiracy in opposition to each Kamal Nath and Rahul Gandhi.
“I enchantment to these farmers who’ve were given certificate however have not had loans waived to hotel instances of fraud and prison conspiracy in opposition to Kamal Nath, Rahul Gandhi and the former Congress govt,” he had declared.
“We will act on the ones instances straight away,” he had mentioned.
The previous Agriculture Minister, Sachin Yadav, has mentioned this admission (that farm loans were waived) through the BJP had uncovered a “politics of lies” pursued only to defame the Kamal Nath govt.
