60k farmers benefited: K'taka CM on PM's 'cruel joke' remark
Days after PM Narendra Modi said that Karnataka government's loan waiver was a "cruel joke" on farmers, CM HD Kumaraswamy said â¹350-crore has already been paid to about 60,000 farmers. He added that PM Modi's remarks were "factually incorrect, insensitive and very unfortunate". PM Modi on Saturday had said that only 800 farmers benefited from the loan waiver in Karnataka.