Loan waiver:BJP protests in Maha, says govt ''betrayed'' farmers

Accusing the Maharashtra government of "betraying" farmers over the issue of giving loan waiver, the BJP staged protests in parts of the state on Tuesday.

Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Devendra Fadnavis, who headed the BJP's protest at Azad Maidan here, said the protests will continue till cultivators get justice.

"The government has been betraying farmers since it was formed," Fadnavis alleged while addressing the protesters.

He said protests were being staged by the BJP outside tehsil offices in the state.

Besides Fadnavis, Maharashtra BJP president Chandrakant Patil, former state ministers Sudhir Mungantiwar, Ashish Shelar and Girish Mahajan and others took part in the protest at the Azad Maidan.

A BJP delegation will raise the issue with Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari later in the evening, Fadnavis said.

"There are 1.45 crore farmers. But the government has released a list of only 15,000 farmers (for grant of loan waiver)," the former chief minister told .