CM Hemant Soren transfers Rs 400 crore to waive farmers’ loans in Jharkhand

THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK

Ranchi, Sept 26: Chief Minister Hemant Soren today transferred Rs 400.60 crore through DBT to waive loans to 1,76,977 farmers under the agricultural loan waiver scheme up to Rs 2 lakh.

On the occasion, the chief minister also launched a scheme to increase the incentive amount of Rs 2 per litre for milk production to Rs 5 per litre for milk producers of Jharkhand.

Soren also launched a scheme to do crop insurance at Re 1 to benefit 16 lakh farmers.

Finance Minister Dr Rameshwar Oraon, Agriculture Minister Deepika Singh Pandey, Labor and Employment Minister Satyanand Bhokta, and Rajya Sabha MP Mahua Manjhi were present among others.

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Addressing the programme organised at Prabhat Tara Maidan, the CM said that this programme is not a Kisan Loan Waiver but a Kisan Samman Yojana.

Taking a dig at the BJP, he said that these people were going to sell the farmers to the capitalists, but the farmers got the three agricultural laws withdrawn by agitating for 1 year. “They do not have money to give MSP, but they have money to waive the loans of capitalists,” he said.

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Curse of the poor

The CM said that when someone harasses someone forcefully, he feels the curse of the poor, they even sent me to jail in a false case. “Who knows, today they may file a PIL in the court for the waiver of 2 lakh agricultural loans. But I am not going to be afraid, I will fight every battle against them,” he asserted.

CM on Maharashtra govt

Hemant Soren said the government in Maharashtra was not made but bought. “Where these people do not win, they buy the government. Now they have come to Jharkhand to buy votes. Jharkhandis are not going to be afraid of jail, bullets, sticks, and batons. We have fought and got Jharkhand our rights by fighting,” he maintained.