Stop all benefits for CMs, PM Modi: Maha farmers reply to partial loan sops

Farmers allege that govt has enough money only for its pay commissions, decry partial waiver

Angry over Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis' statement that the government can not waive loans for all of them, Maharashtra's farmers, gathered in Nashik for protests, have demanded that all facilities, increments, and benefits of government officials, including chief ministers and even the prime minister, be cut immediately.

"Let them come in line with farmers, then they will realise the pain farmers are experiencing every day," said Sadashiv Sattavaji Shinde Patil, a small farmer who claimed to have travelled throughout Maharashtra on a bicycle in support of farmers.

"The government has implemented various pay commissions for its own employees, but it