‘Won’t end life if state government waives farm loans’

YAVATMAL: The district unit of Sambhaji Brigade, a political outfit to fight for Maratha reservation and other constitutional rights for OBCs, on Wednesday began the task of collecting filled-in forms from farmers across the district, assuring the state government of not committing suicide if their loan is waived.
District unit president Yogesh Dhanorkar said that the state unit of Sambaji Brigade has decided to collect guarantee letters from farmers to pledge that they would not commit suicide if their loan is waived.The letters would be submitted to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis by its representatives on Maharashtra Day in Mumbai.
“Fadnavis recently posed a question if the state government opts for a total farm loan waiver, the opposition parties should assure him that farmers’ suicides would not recur,” Dhanorkar said, adding that his organization had accepted the challenge and started collecting the application of assurance from debt-ridden farmers.
“In case the government fails to concede our demands for total loan waiver for farmers even after submitting the pledge letters to the CM, we will not allow any ministers, MPs and MLAs to move freely in the state,” cautioned Vipin Chaudhari, another office-bearer of the outfit.
The outfit has also launched a ‘Sheetal Hunda Virodhi Pathak’ to honour the request made in the suicide note of the 21-year-old daughter of a farmer from Bhise Wagholi village in Latur district on April 14 who committed suicide as her parents could not meet the demand of her future in-laws, Dr Sheetal Solunke said.
Those present at the press briefing included Vipin Chaudhari, Kailash Bhoyar, Akash Chandankhede, Pravin Deshmukh, Devendra Kalaskar, Mayuri Raut and others.