CM Baghel promises farm loan waiver if Cong wins Chhattisgarh elections

RAIPUR: In a major announcement ahead of the next month’s Assembly polls, Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh Bhupesh Baghel on Monday said if his party Congress retains power in the state, loans of farmers will be written off.

The Congress had made a similar promise ahead of the 2018 Assembly polls to farmers, a move which contributed in the party recording a landslide win and ending the 15-year rule of the BJP. The Baghel government had earlier said it fulfilled the 2018 promise and waived agriculture loans worth Rs 9,270 crore of 18.82 lakh farmers in the state.

Baghel urged people to re-elect Congress to power so that the party’s government writes off loans of farmers.