The Vishnu Deo Sai-led Bharatiya Janata Party government of Chhattisgarh on Monday transferred the outstanding bonus to nearly 12 lakh paddy farmers, pending from two years of the party’s last stint in power [2013-18].
In 2018, the non-payment of the said bonus was seen as a pivotal factor that broke the BJP’s sequence of State election victories in the predominantly rural State. Attempting a course correction, the party had highlighted it as a key poll promise in the run up to last month’s Assembly polls.
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