Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot with Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Deputy CM Sachin Pilot. | Photo Credit: Twitter

Jaipur: Ashok Gehlot's government had announced farmer loan waiver in Rajasthan in the very first cabinet meeting. However, in the tribal district of Dungarpur, there are many farmers who never took out the loan from the cooperative bank but their names are featured on the list of those whose short-term farm loan was recently waived off by the Gehlot government.

The report emerged from Gowadi Village, Sagwara Tehsil in Dungarpur district of Rajasthan. When people checked the name of farmers on the online link provided by the state government they found the name of more than 1700 people from the village whose name figured in the list but they never took the loan.

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The cooperative bank in Gowadi had given a short-term loan of Rs 8 crore to 1780 farmers. After people heard about the news they carried out a protest and burned the effigy of the manager of cooperative bank Nahar Singh, who is reportedly missing. The villagers also submitted a memorandum to local SDM demanding a thorough inquiry into the matter. Meanwhile, the government has suspended the manager of the cooperative bank and investigation has been ordered.

Rahul Gandhi had promised farm loan waiver in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh within 10 days of coming to power. After Ashok Gehlot took charge of the state he announced a farm loan waiver up to Rs 2 lakh, after which the Congress president Rahul Gandhi tweeted "It's done!"

The loan waiver will add an additional burden of Rs 18,000 crore on the state exchequer.

Later, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh also announced the loan waiver soon after assuming power.

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