State BJP pulls up Maharashtra govt

Demands white paper on farm loans

"The CAG report is a slap on the Congress-NCP Democratic Front gvernment. When the prime minister's package was declared at that time, it was not the farmers who benefitted by the package but the banks owned by the NCP members," he said.

The money was mainly meant to revive the banks which were on the verge of collapse. Now the CAG has also in its report flayed the government for it, he added.

Gadkari said DF government should bring out a white paper on the distribution of state loans and how they utilised it.

The CAG report which was tabled in the state assembly yesterday had flayed the govenment and said only 40 per cent farmers were aware of Central and state relief packages.