Mumbai, June 22 -- The Opposition MLAs staged a protest over the issue of loan waiver for farmers on the first day of the Maharashtra Monsoon Assembly session on Monday.

Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray, Congress leader Vijay Wadettiwar, along with several other leaders, raised slogans in Marathi, "Make the farmers' 7/12 land records clean" against the Fadnavis-led state government.

On June 2, the Maharashtra Cabinet approved the Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Farmer Debt Relief Scheme, which will provide loan waivers of up to Rs 2 lakh to farmers in Maharashtra. There will be no landholding criterion for eligibility, and loans up to Rs 2 lakh will be eligible for waiver.

On June 19, the state government constituted three committees...