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Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will be in Delhi and will be meeting Union Home Minister Amit Shah as the Maharashtra government is yet to be formed due to the Shiv Sena’s demands.
Sources, however, said the meeting with Shah will be to discuss aid from the National Disaster Relief Fund (NDRF) to farmers affected by unseasonal rains across the state.
While the state government announced a Rs 10,000 crore package for affected farmers, ally Sena as well as opposition Congress and Nationalist Congress Party called it inadequate considering the several lakh hectares of crops that have been damaged.
The state government had earlier put the crop area damaged at 54.22 lakh hectares. Incidentally, earlier in the day, the Sena’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut had raised the ‘mysterious silence’ of Shah, who heads the BJP, on the deadlock over formation of government.
