Window dressing: Once again CM demonstrates political acumen to avert crisis, farmers issues settled for now

By demonstrating her political acumen and maneuvering skills, once again the lady Chief Minister of Rajasthan succeeds in getting sorted out the agitating farmers loan waiver issue, at least for the time being. Working smartly on the agreement draft between the state government and farmers’ leaders, she buys at least a month’s time to carefully “study and analyze” the multiple pros and cons of an ongoing sensitive loan waiver issue, which may bring an additional financial burden of Rs30000 crore on the state exchequer, which is already in a bad health. But at the same time the Chief Minister sounds to be quite serious on this issue.

In the first go, the state government has agreed to set up a multi-member panel to suggest the ways and means to waive off or exempt loans up to Rs50,000. The panel, before submitting its report in a month’s time, will visit to the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Kerala . Interestingly, Kerala, which is the national capital of CPM, itself doesn’t have any loan waiver scheme. CPM, led by Comrade Amra Ram, is leading the agitation, but interestingly, there is not even a single MLA from the same …read more