{"id":316916,"date":"2019-11-20T05:06:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T05:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316916"},"modified":"2019-11-20T08:34:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T08:34:16","slug":"sharad-pawar-to-meet-pm-modi-today-to-discuss-farmers-crisis-in-maharashtra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sharad-pawar-to-meet-pm-modi-today-to-discuss-farmers-crisis-in-maharashtra\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharad Pawar meets PM Modi to discuss farmers crisis in Maharashtra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316921 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191120-140055__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191120-140055__01.jpg 667w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191120-140055__01-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191120-140055__01-476x420.jpg 476w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/>Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief &amp; MP Sharad Pawar on\u00a0 Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Parliament to discuss farmers&#8217; issues in Maharashtra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\">After meeting PM Modi, Sharad Pawar in a tweet said, &#8220;Met @PMOIndia Shri. Narendra Modi in Parliament today to discuss the issues of farmers in Maharashtra. This year the seasonal rainfall has created Havoc engulfing 325 talukas of Maharashtra causing heavy damage of crops over 54.22 lakh hectares of area.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;To take a stock of this unprecedented situation and address the concerns of distressed farmers I had visited Nashik and Vidarbha in first half of November,&#8221; Pawar added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;This year the returning monsoon devastated almost every standing crop in major parts of Maharashtra. I brought to notice this alarming situation to the kind attention of Hon. PM.&#8221; said, Sharad Pawar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">At the beginning of the Winter Session of Parliament, PM Modi had praised the NCP for strictly adhering to parliamentary norms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The meeting came ahead of the key meeting between Pawar and Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi to discuss on forming the government in Maharashtra with Shiv Sena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">BJP, the single largest party, could not stake claim to form a government as its ally Shiv Sena remained firm over sharing of the chief minister\u2019s post since the assembly election results were announced on October 24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The BJP had emerged as the\u00a0single-largest party with 105 seats\u00a0in the 288-member Assembly. The Shiv Sena at 56, the NCP 54 and the Congress won 44 seats.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief &amp; MP Sharad Pawar on\u00a0 Wednesday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Parliament to discuss farmers&#8217; issues in Maharashtra. After meeting PM Modi, Sharad Pawar in a tweet said, &#8220;Met @PMOIndia Shri. Narendra Modi in Parliament today to discuss the issues of farmers in Maharashtra. 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