KT Rama Rao slams Congress over farmer distress in Telangana

BRS working president KT Rama Rao accused the Congress government of failing to keep its election promises and pushing farmers into distress. He said public sentiment favoured a BRS return and asserted that K Chandrashekhar Rao would be back as Chief Minister.

Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao slammed the Congress government over its failure to honour its election promises and for pushing Telangana’s farmers into distress. He asserted that the people were already signalling a return of the BRS to power and that the wait was for just another two years.

Felicitating newly elected sarpanches from Boath constituency at Telangana Bhavan on Monday, Rama Rao said that even two years after assuming office, the Congress had not implemented a single major promise. He stated that the farmer-friendly BRS rule was replaced by an anti-farmer Congress regime in the State. He said farmers cultivating cotton and soyabean, particularly in the erstwhile Adilabad district, were suffering due to the government’s mismanagement, leading to uncertainty across the agriculture sector.

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Contrasting this with the previous BRS regime, the BRS working president said farmers lived with dignity under former Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, with welfare schemes like Rythu Bandhu, Rythu Bima and a network of over 7,000 procurement centres ensuring support at the village level. He said irrigation projects on the Godavari and Krishna rivers, including Kaleshwaram and the near-complete Palamuru-Rangareddy project, had catapulted Telangana into the country’s top paddy producer.

Referring to the electoral performance, he said the BRS had narrowly lost seats such as Adilabad, Khanapur and Kagaznagar in the Assembly polls but received clear support from voters in the recent panchayat elections. “People suffered under Congress rule for the last two years. But in another two years, KCR will return as Chief Minister,” he asserted.

Rama Rao appreciated Boath MLA Anil Jadav as a leader of integrity and urged party cadres to protect and strengthen such leadership. He also accused the BJP of going back on its promise to reopen the Cement Corporation of India factory in Adilabad, with tacit support from the Congress.

Taking aim at Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, Rama Rao questioned how a debt of Rs 2.5 lakh crore was incurred in two years and accused him of targeting Chandrashekhar Rao with false cases and allegations. He called upon party workers to repeat their panchayat success in the upcoming municipal, MPTC and ZPTC elections. He reiterated that village funds were a constitutional right of the sarpanches and would be fully restored under a future BRS government.