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"Farm loan waiver is high on the agenda and the decision will be taken at the first cabinet meeting itself," he told reporters at the state Congress headquarters. RAIPUR: Aiming to fulfil the big poll promise that swept it to power, Chhattisgarh 's new government will take a decision on farm loan waiver at its very first cabinet meeting, chief minister-designate Bhupesh Baghel said on Sunday, immediately after being elected Congress legislature party (CLP) leader. Senior leader T S Singhdeo, outlining the priorities of the Congress government, maintained that the "conspiracy" behind the May 2013 massacre needs to be unearthed for which a special Investigation Team (SIT) would be set up. In the run-up to the 2013 elections, the then state Congress president Nandkumar Patel, his son Dinesh, former leader of the opposition Mahendra Karma, former Union minister V C Shukla and former legislator Uday Mudaliyar were among 27 people killed in a deadly Maoist ambush, considered one of the worst rebel attacks ever. For the last five years, Congress has been demanding a thorough probe into the killing of its top leaders.Bowing to Congress pressure, the BJP government had announced in the assembly a couple of years ago that CBI would be handed the investigation.The state government wrote to CBI asking for an investigation, but the central agency is yet to begin the probe..