The Maharashtra government must declare 'wet drought' due to heavy rains and the resultant damage to crops and losses to farmers, failing which the Congress will agitate and "not allow ministers to move about", the party's state unit chief Nana Patole said on Saturday.

He said farmers in several parts of the state are distressed due to the damage to standing crops ready for harvest, while surveys and other loss-assessment procedures of the Eknath Shinde government were slow to take off.