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Will Expose Govt If Loan Waiver Not Executed Properly: Thackeray

He said that he wants to see the names of the 36 lakh farmers whose loans are going to be waived.

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Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said his party would not shy away from "exposing" the BJP-led Maharashtra government if it fails to execute the loan waiver scheme properly.

Thackeray, whose party is also a part of the ruling coalition in the state, claimed his outfit was the first to demand debt waiver and rued that Maharashtra continues to top in farmer suicides.

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It was the Shiv Sena which first raised its voice for loan waiver for farmers, when Sharad Pawar was the Union Agriculture Minister... Maharashtra was on top in farmer suicides and unfortunately it is still at the top. This was not the area where our state should have been at the top

"Hence, the farmers should be debt-free was my demand," he said.

"We will not shy away from exposing the state government if it fails to execute the loan waiver scheme properly," Thackeray said.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had on 24 June announced the loan waiver of Rs 34,022 crore after a statewide agitation by farmers earlier last month.

On 9 July, Fadnavis said the entire debt of around 36 lakh farmers will be written off under the scheme.

I want to see the names of 36 lakh farmers, whose loan is going to be waived, in the state Assembly
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Fadnavis earlier said that there are 1.34 crore farmers in Maharashtra, of whom 90 lakh have availed the crop loan. Out of them, 89 lakh farmers are eligible for the loan waiver scheme announced by the state government.

Of the total 89 lakh beneficiaries, nearly 44 lakh farmers would get the maximum benefit of the scheme. Of these 44 lakh, the entire debt of 36 lakh farmers, who have an outstanding loan of up to Rs 1.50 lakh, would be completely waived, the chief minister had said.

The remaining farmers, whose outstanding loan amount is slightly more than Rs 1.50 lakh, can also avail the benefit by paying the difference above Rs 1.50 lakh cap, he had said.

While announcing the loan waiver for marginal farmers in the state, the government had also promised Rs 10,000 initial loan assistance at the start of the kharif season.

"It is more than a month and some 2,500 farmers have only opted for it. If such a situation is not chaos, then what is? And if you talk about loan waiver, no bank has so far received clear instructions about loan waiver," he said.

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