58 Maharashtra sugar mills sold at well below market prices: Raju Shetti
The Hindu
The farmer leader demands RBI intervention to revalue the assets of sugar factories
After Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Ajit Pawar last week refuted the BJP allegations pertaining to the sale of sugar factories in the State, farmer leader and Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatana (SSS) chief Raju Shetti on Monday hit out at both the NCP and the BJP by alleging that 58 sugar mills were “fraudulently sold” well below their market prices over a 10-year period between 2007 and 2017.
Mr. Shetti, a former two-time MP from Hatkanangale in Kolhapur district, has written to the Reserve Bank of India Governor and the Finance Secretary of India among others, seeking revaluation of the assets of these mills which were reportedly sold at knockdown prices by the Maharashtra Co-operative bank (MSCB), which is mired in a multi-crore scam.
Mr. Shetti said the mills were sold during the tenures of both the erstwhile Congress-NCP and the Devendra Fadnavis-led BJP-Shiv Sena government.
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