India, June 15 -- NCP (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar on Sunday suspended his indefinite hunger strike after senior BJP minister Girish Mahajan assured him that the state government would hold a meeting before June 22 to discuss farmers' demands and arrive at a positive decision on the contentious farm loan waiver issue.

Pawar, 40, however, warned that he would resume the agitation if the government failed to honour the assurance.

The MLA had been on an indefinite fast in Pandharpur since Friday, demanding a blanket farm loan waiver and the removal of conditions attached to the state's recently announced debt relief scheme, which he said would exclude millions of distressed farmers from its benefits.

The breakthrough came late Sunday night when W...