Mumbai, Sept. 28 -- NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar submitted a letter to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, putting forward 17 demands for providing immediate relief for drought-affected farmers, agricultural labourers, and rural citizens in the state.

In the letter, Pawar demanded a waiver of loans taken for agriculture and agribusiness from cooperative banks, nationalised banks, urban cooperative banks, and credit societies.

"Loans taken by farmers for agriculture and allied activities from cooperative banks, nationalized banks, cooperative urban banks, and credit societies, as well as personal loans from Social Justice, Minority, and Tribal Welfare departments, loans taken for orchards, and loans taken by women's self-help gr...