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XNew Delhi: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged him to help farmers who have faced losses due to heavy rains that lashed the state recently.
Fadnavis said he handed over a memorandum to the prime minister and briefed him about the flood situation in the state in the aftermath of heavy rains.
"I have submitted a memorandum to the Prime Minister on my behalf, and that of the two deputy chief ministers. We have apprised him about the flood situation in Maharashtra, the extent of damage and requested him to help the state through the mechanism of NDRF to the full extent," he said.
"The prime minister asked the state government to send a proposal in this regard which will be considered constructively," the chief minister t