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The indefinite accelerated being observed by NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar to question the removal of "stringent" conditions from the Maharashtra Government's recently-announced workplace indebtedness waiver strategy entered the 2nd time connected Saturday (June 13, 2026).
Speaking connected the occasion, Mr. Pawar said helium would not telephone disconnected his disturbance until his request is fulfilled.
The NCP (SP) person launched the disturbance connected Friday (June 12) successful the temple municipality of Pandharpur successful Solapur territory to property for the request for a broad indebtedness waiver for farmers.
Through the hunger strike, the legislator from the Karjat-Jamkhed assembly constituency successful Ahilyanagar district, aims to escalate unit connected the Devendra Fadnavis-led State government.
On June 2, the Maharashtra furniture approved a ₹36,585 crore workplace indebtedness waiver scheme, which is expected to payment astir 56 lakh cultivators. The scheme, 'Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Shetkari Karja-mukti Yojana', provides workplace indebtedness waiver of up to ₹2 lakh. The strategy has 3 components — indebtedness waiver, one-time colony (OTS) and inducement benefits — and determination volition beryllium nary landholding criterion for eligibility.
Under the waiver component, farmers whose full outstanding short-term harvest loans, including main and interest, are up to ₹2 lakh volition beryllium eligible for a implicit indebtedness relief. The loans indispensable person been disbursed betwixt April 1, 2019, and March 31, 2025, remained overdue arsenic of September 30, 2025, and unpaid till March 31, 2026.
The farmers whose dues transcend ₹2 lakh volition beryllium covered nether the OTS component. Such borrowers volition person to wide the magnitude supra ₹2 lakh, aft which they volition go eligible for a waiver of ₹2 lakh. They person been fixed clip until March 31, 2027, to deposit their stock of the outstanding amount.
Talking to reporters, Mr. Pawar said, "We are determined. Until the stringent conditions successful the workplace indebtedness waiver strategy are removed and its benefits are extended to each farmers, I volition not retreat my hunger strike."
"The archetypal information limits the payment to lone up to ₹50,000 for farmers who had availed the 2019 indebtedness waiver scheme. The 2nd information makes it mandatory for farmers to repay their harvest loans for 2025-26 and 2026-27 successful bid to person the inducement subsidy," helium said.
Due to these 2 conditions, much than 37 lakh farmers volition beryllium excluded from the indebtedness waiver scheme. Therefore, our elemental and straightforward request is to region these restrictive conditions, Mr. Pawar said.
"I volition not retreat the hunger onslaught till it happens," the MLA added.
Rohit Pawar's begetter Rajendra Pawar visited the tract of the indefinite accelerated to explicit solidarity.
