Yogi govt's 'gift' to Uttar Pradesh farmers starts with 9 paise loan waiver

Earlier, UP govt announced crop loans up to Rs 1 lakh will be waived off for small and marginal farmers

Only six months into power and the Adityanath-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh is already in hot water with a series of controversies emerging one after another.

Facing flak for the deaths of children in a hospital in Gorakhpur last month, as also for the insensitive “children die every August” remark by state health minister Siddharth Nath Singh, the state government kicked up another storm when the first phase of the much-hyped crop loan waiver scheme turned into a major farce for farmers.

The state government had earlier announced that under the scheme, crop loans up