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Kerala floods: Rahul writes to RBI Governor Das, seeks relief for farmers

Kerala has witnessed the worst floods in over a century

Current Affairs:-Congress pioneer Rahul Gandhi has kept in touch with RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das, asking that the ban on reimbursement of harvest credits be stretched out to December 31 for ranchers in Kerala in the wake of floods in the state.

The loss of life in the Kerala floods is 95, according to government figures, and over 1.89 lakh individuals uprooted by the storm since August 8 have taken asylum in 1,118 camps, some of which were visited by Gandhi, the Lok Sabha MP from Wayanad, on Monday.

In a letter to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) representative, Gandhi said Kerala has seen the most noticeably terrible floods in over a century and the staggering effect of the storm is additionally intensified by the powerlessness of ranchers to reimburse farming credits by virtue of across the board crop misfortune, and broad harm to other gainful resources.

Outer factors, for example, the sharp fall in worldwide ware cost of money harvests has likewise unfavorably influenced the capacity of ranchers to skip back, he said.

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“Kerala has seen an awful spate of rancher suicides in the consequence of banks starting recuperation procedures against powerless ranchers under the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Securities Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act),” the Congress head asserted.

“In spite of the interest from the state government and resistance groups to broaden the ban on reimbursement of advances to December 31, 2019; the state level broker’s board of trustees has wouldn’t think about the interest.

“I demand the RBI to take measures to stretch out the ban on reimbursement to December 31, 2019,” he said in his letter to Das.

The Congress head on Monday had visited flood-influenced territories in his Wayanad Lok Sabha supporters in Kerala, including most noticeably awful hit Puthumala, and guaranteed all assistance to those hit by the cataclysm to modify their lives.

According to the official information, 1,057 houses have been totally harmed and 11,159 halfway wrecked in the downpour.

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Rahul Gandhi plans nationwide ‘yatra’ for reaching out to workers

Party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will continue to focus on Uttar Pradesh

Current Affairs:-Outfoxed by veterans who are back in the spotlight, previous Congress boss Rahul Gandhi and youthful pioneers near him are wanting to interface with gathering laborers on the ground and are getting ready to set out on an across the nation yatra.

The underlying arrangement was to backtrack the course of the ‘sadbhavana yatra’ that Rajiv Gandhi had attempted in 1990.

The Congress, under Rajiv’s authority, had lost the Lok Sabha surveys a year sooner. In this way, in an offer to reconnect with the individuals everywhere, he had headed out to a few urban communities crosswise over India in below average rail compartments.

The official start of the battle was on the birth commemoration of Mahatma Gandhi on October 2, with Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi paying tributes to the Father of the Nation at Rajghat before a roadshow in the walled city of Delhi.

Rahul’s group had at first arranged he ought to set out on his yatra on October 2. His group trusted Rahul should stay under the radar until the ‘temporary’ party boss starts the procedure to choose a full-time president.

The group had trusted the ‘temporary’ president would be somebody youthful. This would permit Rahul and others to host a definitive state in gathering issues.

Be that as it may, the new elements in the gathering, with Sonia Gandhi delegated the “temporary” party boss on Saturday, implied veterans are back in control.

This has provoked Rahul’s group to propose that he start his crusade from August 20, the birth commemoration of his dad, to interface with gathering laborers.

Aside from Rahul, pioneers like previous Lok Sabha MP Meenakshi Natarajan are additionally planning to pursue their pioneer’s guide to traverse India in sleeper class mentors to associate with the individuals and Congress laborers.

There are discourses inside his group if Rahul should visit journey recognizes that Hindus think about sacred, or zones that were settings of key occasions during India’s opportunity battle.

This incorporates the Mahatma’s origination in Porbandar, Bardoli, where Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel drove a rancher’s disturbance, or Gandhi’s ashram in Wardha.

Rajiv, during his crusade, visited Ayodhya in October 1990, and furthermore Champaran in Bihar as a tribute to the Gandhi-drove disturbance to dissent abuse of indigo ranchers.

In the event that Rahul sets out on his battle in October, state units in Jharkhand, Haryana and Maharashtra would anticipate that him should visit these states to address open energizes since these three states are going to surveys in October, sources said.

Gathering general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will keep on concentrating on Uttar Pradesh.

On Tuesday, she intends to visit Sonbhadra to express solidarity with groups of the casualties of tribals killed over a land question on July 17.

On Monday, Rahul was in his Lok Sabha body electorate in Wayanad, Kerala.

He visited the flood-hit zones and said he has addressed Prime Minister Narendra Modi to look for focal assets for the state.

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