The notice states that court-issued attachment warrants have been served to borrowers who have defaulted on their loans from the Hanumangarh branch of the bank.
The political temperature has increased in Rajasthan politics after BJP released the advertisement for auction of farmers’ land in Hanumangarh. The Congress has launched scathing attack on BJP and at the central Modi government in this matter. Hanumangarh Cooperative Land Development Bank Limited has issued an auction notice. The notice states that court-issued attachment warrants have been served to borrowers who have defaulted on their loans from the Hanumangarh branch of the bank. These borrowers deliberately failed to repay their loans, resulting in the confiscation of their mortgaged agricultural land or property. Now, the bank will auction off these confiscated properties publicly. The advertisement provides information about the confiscation of 20 properties, with most borrowers having taken loans for housing and agriculture purposes, while two had taken loans for non-agricultural purposes.
In this matter, former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has written on social media ‘X’ that the advertisement printed in the newspapers of Hanumangarh district for auctioning the land of farmers has exposed the truth of “Modi’s guarantee”. BJP had promised on page number 42 of its manifesto in Rajasthan that it will ensure to stop the auction of farmers’ land, but the land of farmers is being auctioned in Rajasthan.
He said that this anti-farmer BJP government formed the government by making false promises, but they do not care about the farmers. Our government had formed the Agricultural Debt Relief Commission, but the new government has not made it functional either.
Gehlot wrote that in November 2020, our government had passed a bill from the assembly and made a provision that 5 acres of agricultural land of farmers would not be auctioned.
The Governor had sent this bill to the Central Government for approval, but it has not yet received approval from the Central Government. For this reason, on January 20, 2022, our government, through an administrative order, banned the agricultural land auction started by some banks at that time.
Gehlot wrote that Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma should immediately get the bill passed in the Assembly on November 2020 approved by the Central Government, so that farmers can get relief. He said that ‘I want to tell the Chief Minister that by giving immediate orders, the auction of farmers’ land should be stopped and concrete arrangements should be made so that no further auction can take place.’
However, after former CM Ashok Gehlot issued a statement on social media, BJP’s state president CP Joshi has responded in a special conversation with The Daily Guardian.