Overview

• Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders Uddhav Thackeray and Sanjay Raut demanded an absolute farm loan waiver and Rs 50,000 per hectare for affected cultivators.
• Thackeray urged that at least Rs 50,000 crore be drawn from the PM CARES Fund to finance large-scale relief and rehabilitation.
• Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi and said the Centre asked Maharashtra to submit a proposal for consideration.
• Opposition parties called current payouts of roughly Rs 7,000–8,000 per hectare inadequate and sought a special session of the state legislature on farmer relief.
• Officials cited damage to over 50 lakh hectares of farmland and reported deaths in the floods, as Thackeray also appealed for a boycott of the India–Pakistan Asia Cup final.