Rajasthan: Protesting farmers say Congress has ruined lives, Rahul Gandhi made false guarantees of mortgage waiver

On Thursday, farmers from a village in Dausa gathered in Jaipur, exterior the residence of CM Ashok Gehlot and protested in opposition to the Rajasthan authorities’s complicated insurance policies which have resulted in banks auctioning the agricultural land of farmers on failure to repay loans.
Demanding a mortgage waive off, aggrieved farmers exterior the residence of CM Ashok Gehlot mentioned that the Congress authorities had ruined their lives. “What should a farmer do? Does the government want us to die of excessive loans? It had said that it would waive off the loans taken by the farmers, but after 3 years, we are yet to see our loans being waived off”, they mentioned.
#WATCH Rajasthan | Dausa farmers protest in Jaipur exterior CM Ashok Gehlot’s residence in opposition to Rajasthan authorities’s course to cease auctioning of agricultural land below ‘Removal of Difficulties Act’ by banks if farmers are unable to repay their loans pic.twitter.com/6FwuGH6quu— ANI (@ANI) January 20, 2022
Further accusing Rahul Gandhi of constructing false guarantees, farmers mentioned that Gandhi had publicly declared that farm loans could be waived off inside 10 days. “We can’t see anything in practice. He addressed public rallies declaring that the Congress government will wave off farmer loans. He counted till 10 and said loans will be waived off in 10 days. CM Ashok Gehlot has ruined our lives”, they added.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday directed officers to cease auctioning below the Removal of Difficulties Act (RODA) by banks if farmers are unable to repay their loans. This knee jerk response has come precisely a day after the state authorities confronted extreme criticism by the BJP over the public sale of land belonging to a farmer, nonetheless, the public sale was later cancelled by the administration.
प्रदेशभर में कृषि भूमि नीलामी रोकने के दिए निर्देश- pic.twitter.com/9DcjverK5s— Ashok Gehlot (@ashokgehlot51) January 20, 2022
The Additional District Magistrate confirming the event mentioned that means of public sale of the land of a farmer, who couldn’t repay his mortgage to a financial institution has been cancelled. “Instead, a settlement process between the farmer and the bank is being facilitated,” he added.
#UPDATE | The means of public sale of the land of a farmer, who couldn’t repay mortgage to a financial institution, has been cancelled. Instead, a settlement course of between the farmer and the financial institution is being facilitated: Dausa ADM RK Meena (19.01.2022) pic.twitter.com/LjYvOFl94k— ANI (@ANI) January 19, 2022
Yesterday, a deceased farmer’s land in Dausa, Rajasthan was auctioned two and a half months after his dying, for non-repayment of the mortgage quantity. The farmer’s household reportedly had requested for an inexpensive time span to repay the mortgage of Rs 7 lakh however was denied by the financial institution. About 15 bigha 2 biswa land of the farmer was auctioned off for Rs 46 lakh in Ramgarh Pachwara village of Dausa.
It is pertinent to notice that in 2018, Rahul Gandhi had promised a farm mortgage waiver inside 10 days. He had particularly talked about that Congress was not making false guarantees and that it had already applied the identical in Punjab and Karnataka.
On finishing 2 years of workplace, CM Ashok Gehlot additionally in 2020 had vowed to waive the farm loans taken from nationalized and industrial banks. He had additionally blamed the industrial banks for not cooperating and had knowledgeable that loans availed from scheduled banks had been to not be waived off.