Congress govt abandoned farmers, neglecting irrigation needs, says KTR

Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao slammed the Congress government for pushing farmers in Telangana into a worsening crisis by halting key welfare schemes and neglecting irrigation infrastructure. He urged party cadres to unite and work towards reinstating party chief K Chandrashekhar Rao as the Chief Minister to save Telangana from the Congress anarchy. […]

Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao slammed the Congress government for pushing farmers in Telangana into a worsening crisis by halting key welfare schemes and neglecting irrigation infrastructure. He urged party cadres to unite and work towards reinstating party chief K Chandrashekhar Rao as the Chief Minister to save Telangana from the Congress anarchy.

Welcoming Chinnambavi Sarpanch Ranjith and his supporters from Kollapur constituency into the BRS at Telangana Bhavan on Thursday, Rama Rao said the farmers’ distress had become severe, with the government stopping major farmer-support schemes. He stated that while the previous BRS government delivered Rythu Bharosa benefits 11 times, the Congress had provided it only once in the last two years. He also criticised the newly introduced urea card, forcing farmers to stand in long lines for fertiliser that was unavailable in shops.

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“Farmers’ families are leaving their footwear in queues for hours together to get hands on a single urea bag. What does the government intends to achieve with urea cards, when their guarantee cards themselves have no value,” he asked. He also raised concern over the government declaring crop holidays in some areas, which was unprecedented after Telangana formation.

The BRS working president accused Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy of deliberately stalling the Palamuru-Rangareddy Lift Irrigation Scheme to discredit former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and making farmers suffer, fearing his old political mentor from Andhra Pradesh.

“KCR completed 90 per cent of the project, with the Narlapur, Karivena, Vattem, Edula and Udandapur reservoirs fully ready. Only canal works remained, which could have been completed swiftly to make the project operational. Instead of finishing the remaining portion, the Congress government cancelled tenders, halted all work and has refused to restart construction,” he said.

He criticised that the Congress government had done nothing but evasion, demolitions and destructions, referring to unfulfilled guarantees, demolition of houses, and the alleged damages caused to checkdams. He said the Congress was the only government in the world, destroying irrigation structures instead of protecting them. “Revanth Reddy who failed to understand Telangana’s river basins, wants to give presentations and teach KCR on river water sharing and irrigation projects,” he ridiculed.

Rama Rao also targeted Minister Jupally Krishna Rao, calling him an opportunistic leader who switched to the Congress for personal gain. He accused Krishna Rao of praising Revanth Reddy merely to safeguard his Ministerial position, while the people of Kollapur had already decided not to re-elect him. He asked the party cadre who efficiently gained upper hand in Kollapur constituency during the panchayat elections, to work unitedly and repeat the success in upcoming elections of MPTcs, ZPTCs and municipal bodies.