Responding to Maharashtra Revenue Minister Chandrakant Patil’s appeal to well-to-do farmers in the state to not avail the blanket loan waiver, an MLA of the ruling BJP’s ally Rashtriya Samaj Paksha on Tuesday said he didn’t want his loan waived. The Rashtriya Samaj Paksha was part of the BJP-led “Mahayuti” (grand alliance) formed ahead of the 2014 assembly elections. Patil had urged that farmers who have additional sources of income or are paying income tax should not avail the loan waiver and give it (loan waiver) back on lines of the domestic LPG gas subsidy. I thus request you to exempt me from the loan waiver scheme,” Kul stated. Hence, I have sought exclusion from the loan waiver as appealed by the revenue minister,” he said.

Source: Hindustan Times June 13, 2017 14:15 UTC