Revanth accepts KTR’s challenge on agri growth

PCC chief asks Minister to choose the venue, date and time

Telangana Congress committee president A. Revanth Reddy said he was accepting the challenge of Municipal Administration Minister K.T. Rama Rao on agriculture growth in Telangana, and suggested him to choose the venue, date and time while appealing to him not to go back on the challenge thrown by him.

At a press conference here, he described Mr. Rao’s claims on agriculture growth as bogus and said he would prove what the Congress contributed from 2004 to 2014 and how the TRS created agrarian crisis since 2014. “I will also compare how much better present Congress governments in other States are doing on the agriculture front. I will take a delegation of TRS ministers to Congress-ruled States to prove my claim,” he said.

The TPCC chief, who was accompanied by senior leaders Mohammed Ali Shabbir, Balram Naik, Mallu Ravi, Anvesh Reddy and others, said free power, farm loan waiver, completion of pending projects while starting new projects, ensuring input subsidy to farmers who lose crops due to vagaries of weather, support price to all the crops and increasing the MSP of paddy from ₹ 450 to ₹ 1,060 were some of the achievements that he wanted to bring to the notice of the TRS that has been claiming that the Congress did nothing.