Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, Nov 7 (PTI) The Maharashtra government has Rs 86,000 crore for contractors to build the Shaktipeeth Expressway but does not have funds for distressed farmers of the state, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray said on Friday.

The former chief minister is touring districts in Marathwada since November 5 to meet farmers affected by heavy rains that struck the region in the last week of September, leaving crops on thousands of hectares of land destroyed.

During the day, he visited Pardi village in Nanded, Dongarkada and Jawla Bazar in Hingoli as well as Pingali in Parbhani and interacted with farmers to find out if relief measures and financial aid announced by the Devendra Fadnavis government had reached them.

Speaking in Hingoli, Thackeray said, "The state gov

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