CM Revanth spent public money on Khammam Rythu Ashirwada Sabha to target BRS: MLC Madhusudhan

BRS leaders Tata Madhusudhan and S Venkata Veeraiah criticised Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy over his Khammam speech, alleging that the government failed farmers through Rythu Bharosa, crop loan waiver implementation and its handling of the Kaleshwaram project and irrigation issues

Khammam: Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy used the Rythu Ashirwada Sabha, organised with public money in Khammam on Friday, to target BRS leaders and spread false claims about funds spent on farmers’ welfare, alleged MLC Tata Madhusudhan.

In a statement here on Saturday, he dismissed the statements made by the Chief Minister and the district’s Congress ministers as utter fabrications. Rythu Bharosa and the loan waiver were nothing but a sham, and the Congress government had completely let down the farming community since assuming power.

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He pointed out that Revanth Reddy’s claims of disbursing Rs 7,491 crore over the past nine days existed only on paper and that not a single farmer had received the full benefit at the ground level. Half of the farmers were excluded from the crop loan waiver, citing issues related to ration cards and Aadhaar cards.

When a Medigadda barrage pillar subsided due to a minor technical glitch, the Congress government, instead of repairing it and supplying water to farmers, was engaging in petty and vindictive politics.

Revanth Reddy, who frequently speaks about BRS chief K Chandrashekhar Rao’s farmhouse, should not forget that he had abandoned the Secretariat and was instead constantly kowtowing to the leadership in New Delhi, the MLC noted.

In another statement, former Sathupalli MLA S Venkata Veeraiah stated that the Chief Minister’s speech at the Khammam meeting was filled with rage and resentment, while he failed to outline any concrete plans for the people of Khammam district.

The Chief Minister failed to distinguish between storing water in the barrages and using pump houses to lift that water. What was wrong with utilising the Kaleshwaram pump houses to lift water when lakhs of cusecs of floodwaters were flowing down the Godavari, he asked.

Revanth Reddy, who warned that Bhadrachalam would face submersion if water was stored at Medigadda, failed to speak about the danger posed by Polavaram backwaters. Polavaram was the actual threat to Bhadrachalam, but the government remained silent on that issue, Veeraiah added.