Congress using padayatra to divert attention from failures: Prashanth Reddy

BRS MLA Vemula Prashanth Reddy demanded a halt to AICC leader Meenakshi Natarajan’s padayatra, accusing Congress of misleading voters. He highlighted Rs 4,500 crore in pending dues to farmers and said key promises from the Youth Declaration remain unfulfilled.

Nizamabad: Calling AICC leader Meenakshi Natarajan’s padayatra in Nizamabad district a deceptive tactic to mislead voters ahead of local body elections, former Minister and BRS MLA Vemula Prashanth Reddy wanted it to be stopped.

Prashanth Reddy challenged Natarajan and TPCC president Mahesh Kumar Goud to address the Congress’s unfulfilled guarantees during the Armoor padayatra, asserting that public trust in Revanth Reddy has eroded due to unmet promises.

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Reddy highlighted several broken promises, including a Rs 2 lakh loan waiver for farmers, with only 1.03 lakh of 2.03 lakh eligible Nizamabad farmers benefiting from it. The farmers were still left with Rs 2,000 crore in dues.

He said the Congress owed farmers Rs 1,000 crore in paddy bonuses, Rs 770 crore under the Rythu Bharosa scheme, and Rs 720 crore for turmeric farmers, totaling Rs 4,500 crore in Nizamabad alone.

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The Youth Declaration’s promise of 2 lakh jobs yielded so far only 5,083, while unemployment benefits, Vidya Bharosa cards, and scooters for female students remain unimplemented. Promises for BCs, including Rs 1 lakh crore for welfare and 42 per cent reservations, and SC/ST financial aid and contract allocations, have also been ignored.

Reddy accused Congress of using Natarajan’s padayatra to sidestep accountability, drawing parallels to assembly election tactics involving leaders like Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge.

He demanded the padayatra to be stopped until promises are fulfilled and condemned the government’s emergency-like tactics, citing preventive arrests and police deployment around BRS leaders’ residences.