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Farmer Sends 5000 Rupees to CM Devendra Fadnavis Over Meager Crop Relief
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News18•18-10-2026, 22:12
Farmer Sends 5000 Rupees to CM Devendra Fadnavis Over Meager Crop Relief
- •A farmer in Maharashtra has expressed deep outrage by sending 5000 rupees to CM Devendra Fadnavis over meager drought relief.
- •Chand Sheikh, a soybean grower from Dharashiv district, sent a money order as a symbolic protest against the government's financial assistance.
- •The farmer earned only 3900 rupees from his soybean yield and had to borrow 1100 rupees from a friend to make up the 5000 rupees for the money order.
- •The Maharashtra government had announced an initial interim relief of 5000 rupees to be deposited into farmers' bank accounts ahead of Diwali.
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A soybean farmer named Chand Sheikh from Dharashiv district sent a ₹5,000 money order to CM Devendra Fadnavis as a symbolic protest against the meager interim drought relief amount announced by the Maharashtra state government.
The Maharashtra government announced an initial emergency financial assistance of ₹5,000 per farmer to be directly deposited into bank accounts ahead of Diwali.
Chand Sheikh stated that he earned only ₹3,900 from his 1.5-acre soybean cultivation after spending ₹25,000, and he had to borrow ₹1,100 from a friend to afford the ₹5,000 money order sent to the Chief Minister.
