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India is the second largest producer of Rice in the World. Rice is the most cultivated crop in India.

According to 2002-2003 census, about 33 million hectares of area in India was cultivated with Rice.

The British land revenue policy further undermined the position and authority of the taluqdars. After annexation, the first British revenue settlement, known as the Summary Settlement of 1856, was based on the assumption that the taluqdars were interlopers with no permanent stakes in land: they had established their hold over land through force and fraud.

The late Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan of the Congress(I) known as YB Chavan was given the official status of the Leader of the Opposition, with the rank of a Cabinet Minister, in the Lok Sabha, in 1977 by the janata Government.

Yashwantrao Balwantrao Chavan was the first Chief Minister of Maharashtra after the division of Bombay State and the fifth Deputy Prime Minister of India. He was a strong Congress leader, co-operative leader, social activist and writer. He was popularly known as Leader of Common People

Hence, Chavan was thus the first opposition leader to enjoy this status.