Farmers from Haryana were among the first to organise a Dhanyawaad (thanksgiving) rally to thank United Progressive Alliance Chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi for the Rs 60,000 crore loan waiver announced by the Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the Budget.
But instead of enthusiasm or gratitude, there's confusion and anger on the ground.
Perhaps the Congress is hoping to turn the wheel of fortune and is on a desperate show-and-sell overdrive.
"Our government has done much more than any other government in the history of India has attempted to do," Deepender Singh Hooda, Congress MP from Rohtak, says.
But farmers like Bhujram are not impressed. Bhujram's future is as tricky and precarious as the medieval mechanism he uses to build his house - brick by brick. It is much like the fate of his wheat crop that depends on the monsoon and he feels he has missed his chance.
"I kept my book clean. I borrowed from here and there to avoid shame and repaid my loan. Now I get nothing," Bhujram says.
Bhujram does not have any overdue loan not because he earned so well but because he took another loan from a private moneylender to repay the bank.
Within days, the bank gave him another loan, which he used to repay the moneylender. It's a cycle that keeps him in debt, while keeping book clean. The locals call it naya purana (new and old).
Courtesy:ibnlive.com
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