Devendra Fadnavis Slams Maharashtra Over Crop Insurance Payout To Farmers

BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis said the Maharashtra government delayed the tender process and was blaming the Centre to hide its failure.

BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday claimed that the Maharashtra government was failing to ensure that insurance firms paid adequate compensation to farmers despite heavy premium collection. The Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress government was blaming the Centre to hide its failure, he said, speaking to reporters at Parbhani in central Maharashtra. The BJP-led government headed by him had made insurance firms pay out about Rs 4,000 crore against premium collection of Rs 576 crore, the former chief minister said. "The state government delayed the tender process. The government has the right to appoint companies for crop insurance. They have failed. To hide these failures, it is blaming the Centre," Mr Fadnavis alleged.