Congress govt. conspiring to deny Rythu Bharosa to many ryots, farmworkers: KTR
The Hindu
BRS working president accuses CM of denying farming community benefits, investment support, leading to farmer suicides and betrayal.
HYDERABAD
Working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K.T. Rama Rao has accused Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of conspiring to deny Rythu Bharosa benefit, investment support, to many landholding farming community as also to the landless poor (farmworkers), by announcing that it would be credited to the bank accounts till March 31 in phases.
Addressing the party’s Rythu Maha Dharna meeting at Nalgonda on Tuesday, he said an amount of ₹17,500 per acre had already been kept due to the farming community by the Congress government as it had not given the promised ₹7,500 per acre for 2023-2024 Rabi and instead paid only ₹5,000 per acre. Along with the due of ₹2,500 per acre for 2023-2024 Rabi, it did not pay ₹7,500 per acre for 2024-2025 Kharif and another ₹7,500 for 2024-2025 Rabi.
The government was also adopting the delaying tactics in case of implementing the crop loan waiver of up to ₹2 lakh to all farmers who have outstanding debt in banks and cooperative societies till December 9, 2023 from December 12, 2018. By not implementing the loan waiver in one go as promised during the run up to the Assembly elections, the Congress government was releasing money for it in phases piling up interest burden on farmers after accusing the previous government of the same, Mr. Rama Rao said.
He reminded the farming community that Mr. Revanth Reddy had spoken about giving the investment support to third crop too before the elections and he had deceived them by not extending it to even one crop season of the 2024-25 agriculture year. After announcing that the Rythu Bharosa would be credited to the bank accounts of all farmers having land under cultivation, the government had not released even 10% of the amount required at the rate of ₹7,500 per acre so far.
The BRS leader brought to the notice of the State government that over 410 farmers, 55 students in residential educational institutions, over 100 auto-drivers and 35 handloom weavers had ended lives after the Congress assumed power. The farming community of the State, particularly in the combined Nalgonda district, would never forgive the Revanth Reddy government for betraying them on different accounts, he remarked.
Earlier, the BRS ranks took out a procession from NGG College to the Clock Tower centre with party leaders KTR, former ministers G. Jagadish Reddy and S. Niranjan Reddy, MLCs S. Madhusudana Chary and M.C. Koti Reddy, several other former legislators and MPs participating.
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