Will waive farm loans if elected to power: Gujarat Congress
April 08, 2017
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Congress president Bharatsinh Solanki today while addressing media persons at State party headquarters in Ahmedabad said Congress party if elected to power in Gujarat will waive farm loans. He said the Congress-led UPA government had waived off Rs 72,000 crore debt of farmers while in Gujarat, the farmers are facing difficulties due to costly power, fertilizer, seeds, pesticides and due to lack of enough irrigation water. Solanki in his statement raised issued such as price of farm produce, pending power connection applications in farm sector, decreasing farm land area. He said Gujarat government has not paid Rs 24 crore pending amount to ground nut farmers for last 140 months.
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