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Gujarat confidential: Paid over half compensation package of Rs 10,000 crore for farmers impacted by rains, says Gujarat govt
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel said in an X post that till date over Rs 5,300 crore had been credited by DBT to farmers.
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel said in an X post that till date over Rs 5,300 crore had been credited by DBT to farmers. (File Photo)
WITHIN A month of the announcement, the Gujarat government said it had paid out over half the compensation package of Rs 10,000 crore for the farmers who were impacted by the unseasonal rains of October.
Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel said in an X post that till date over Rs 5,300 crore had been credited by DBT to farmers.
On Tuesday, representatives of APMCs, marketing yards and farmer bodies were in Gandhinagar to “felicitate” the CM.
Forest and Environment minister Arjun Modhwadia told mediapersons that the compensation handed out totalled Rs 6,805 crore which also covered farmers from Vav-Tharad who had suffered in the unseasonal rains of August and September. “Farmers from 17,000 of the 18,000 villages in Gujarat had benefited,” he said
‘December 15, 2002’
CHIEF MINISTER Bhupendra Patel on Monday responded to a post from a private handle that marked December 15, 2002, as a date that “changed Indian politics forever” when under the then Chief Minister of Gujarat Narendra Modi, BJP recorded a landslide victory in the Gujarat Assembly polls by winning 127 seats.
The private handle also posted a video with regard to the BJP’s victory then in which Modi is seen with party leaders such as Venkaiah Naidu and Keshubhai Patel, among others.
Indeed, a historic day.
With his first electoral mandate, @narendramodi Ji earned the people’s unwavering trust, scripting a decisive victory that reshaped Gujarat’s politics and laid the foundation for a new era of leadership in India. https://t.co/w16pbsZ7wr
— Bhupendra Patel (@Bhupendrapbjp) December 15, 2025
In his post, CM Patel referred to December 15, 2002 and said, “Indeed, a historic day.” He added that with the mandate, Modi earned the people’s “unwavering trust” by scripting a decisive victory that reshaped Gujarat’s politics and “laid the foundation for a new era of leadership in India.”
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