Farmers dying and TRS celebrating Rythu Bandhu: Ponnala
The Hindu
Former PCC chief cites unkept promises of the TRS government like farm loan waiver
Former Telangana Congress committee president Ponnala Lakshmaiah has ridiculed the State government and the TRS for celebrating Rythu Bandhu programmes when farmers were committing suicides in hordes with no support coming from the government.
Mr. Lakshmaiah alleged that the TRS government has turned insensitive, to say the least, to celebrate Rythu Bandhu while turning a blind eye to the increasing deaths of farmers who were resorting to the extreme step hit by nature’s vagaries. “The government that should rescue farmers is nowhere to be seen while taking shelter under the Rythu Bandhu umbrella claiming that the scheme was the panacea for all ills,” he said.
The former PCC chief cited several unkept promises of the TRS government like the farm loan waiver and guarantee for support price. The poll promise of farm loan waiver is forgotten while the plight of tenant farmers is totally ignored as if they don’t exist, he alleged.