Sanjay blames KCR for farmers’ suicides
The Hindu
CM scared them with his directive to go for crops other than paddy, says Telangana BJP chief
Telangana BJP president and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Tuesday demanded that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao own up responsibility for the suicide of five farmers and also apologise to the farming community for causing them distress due to his directive to go for crops other than paddy in the next season.
“Mr. Rao has caused so much heartburn to the scared farmers with this latest directive that they are resorting to the extreme step. Why is he reluctant to implement the Centre’s farm insurance programme to help the farmers in distress? People should question the TRS leaders about this,” he said, during a public meeting in Medak on the 18th day of ‘Praja Sangrama Yatra’.
The plight of the farmers in the district and throughout his tour has caused much anguish to him, he claimed and charged the government of being apathetic to the various problems being faced by them. “The Chief Minister did not even bother to meet the Union Minister of State for Agriculture Sobha Karandjale when she wanted to discuss farmers’ issues, how can they say she praised the government?” he asked.