Mumbai: Farmers in Maharashtra called off their strike on Saturday morning after another round of talks between their leaders and chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.
Media reports said that the chief minister accepted 70 per cent of farmers’ demands and assured them that the government will set up a committee to monitor the demands.
Fadnavis also assured that loans of small land-owning farmers will be waived off by the state government by October 31. The government also agreed to waive off penalty and interest on power dues.
Similarly, cases of rioting, registered during the strike against agitating farmers, will also be withdrawn.
The government will take a decision on hiking milk prices by June 20.
Over half a million farmers across Maharashtra, barring the coastal Konkan, had resorted to an unprecedented strike, which was marred by several violent incidents.
The farmers pressed the state government for a complete waiver of farm loans, free electricity, appropriate remunerative prices for their produce, grants for irrigation, pension for farmers who are 60 years and above, and implementation of the MS Swaminathan Committee recommendations.
