Adilabad: Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president K.T. Rama Rao alleged on Wednesday that the Congress government has neglected farmers, while former chief minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had “worked for farmers’ welfare and strengthened the farming community during the party’s 10-year rule.”
He listed welfare schemes and development initiatives taken up by the BRS government for farmers and accused Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy of damaging the agriculture sector.
Rama Rao was speaking at a Rythu Garjana meeting in Nirmal, where he welcomed Nalla Vinay Reddy into the party.
He said Chandrasekhar Rao had brought water to the Sriramsagar Project through a reverse pumping system from Kaleshwaram, about 250km away, and revived 46,000 tanks under Mission Bhagiratha.
He said the condition of farmers would have been better had Chandrasekhar Rao been in power for more years.
Rama Rao said the Congress government had permanently cancelled the ‘Neeti Tiruva’.
Small and marginal farmers, who accounted for 93 per cent of the state’s farming community, were “suffering.”
He recalled that the BRS government had waived crop loans worth 73,000 crore, implemented Rythu Bandhu and provided 5 lakh under Rythu Bheema to support the families of farmers who died by suicide.
He also said 63,000 beedi rollers had been given pensions in Nirmal district alone.
He recalled that Chandrasekhar Rao had conceived the idea of launching a separate Telangana movement during a visit to the Pochampadu irrigation project in 1996, when he was in charge of the by-election for the Nirmal Assembly constituency.
He said the project was being neglected.
BRS MLAs Anil Jadhav, Vemula Prashanth Reddy and Gampa Goverdhan, and senior leaders Jogu Ramanna, Baji Reddy Goverdhan, Jeevan Reddy, Ramkishan Reddy, Hunmanth Shinde, Balka Suman, Diwakar Rao, Durgam Chinniah, Johnson Naik, Koneru Konappa, Ramadevi, Shyamsunder, Kiran and Vilas were present.
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