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Farmers’ body seeks complete loan waiver

HISAR: Farmers, led by the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), said today that they would start an indefinite dharna if the government failed to take note of their demand for a loan waiver in two weeks.

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Tribune News Service
Hisar, January 2

Farmers, led by the All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), said today that they would start an indefinite dharna if the government failed to take note of their demand for a loan waiver in two weeks.

Facing debt, coupled with low returns, the farmers threatened “to teach the ruling BJP a lesson” during the next elections, demanding a complete waiver of their debt.

Farmers of several villages in the Siwani region in Bhiwani district held a rally in Siwani town on Tuesday. The farmers were also upset at posters carrying the photographs of 50 loan defaulting farmers in many villages of Siwani. The farmers’ leaders alleged that the peasants were in deep financial strain due to diminishing returns in the fields.

Bhiwani District Primary Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Bank put up posters of the defaulting farmers last month, urging the financial institutes not to lend money to these farmers who have defaulted in the repayment of the loan.

The AIKS state president Sher Singh said the farmers had been working hard in the fields to produce grains and vegetables but the rising input costs had been costing dear to them. “Now, instead of providing any relief and bail-out package to them, the government is shaming the loan defaulter farmers by putting their names and photos at public places and urging financial institutes not to lend money to them,” he said, adding that policies like the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY) had left the farmers high and dry.

Dayanand Punia said the Kisan Sabha would start an indefinite dharna from January 15 if the government did not listen to their demand for loan waiver. “The farmers would teach the BJP a lesson in the elections as the party had failed to fulfill its pre-poll promises to them after coming to power,” he said.

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