"farm-loan-waiver"

BRS leader Vemula Prashanth Reddy alleged that the State government filed illegal cases against farmers and party workers demanding farm loan waiver implementation. He claimed many eligible farmers were left out and warned of protests if the issue was not addressed

KTR accused the Congress government of cheating people with false promises, especially autorickshaw drivers. He claimed the government owed Rs.1,560 crore to workers and demanded Rs.10 lakh ex gratia for families of deceased drivers. He also warned of a maha dharna in February.

Former Minister T Harish Rao criticised the Congress-led Telangana government for capping maize procurement at 18 quintals per acre, despite higher yields. He highlighted the delay in opening procurement centres, forcing farmers to sell at rates below MSP.

As huge number of farmers throng grama sabha meetings with applications for farm loan waivers, Harish Rao said there was no transparency in Congress government's claims

BRS leader and former Minister says they are intended to mislead farmers, shift focus from pressing issues

Say they were left with no choice but to borrow money from private lenders at exorbitant rates of interest as government is delaying loan waiver

Despite completing the necessary formalities, a significant number of these farmers remain uncertain about the waiver

A large number of farmers gathered at the mandal headquarters and blocked the road causing traffic disruption in the area for some time

While the Telangana Rashtra Rythu Sangham, affiliated to CPI, has called for protests in front of the Collector's office today, CPI (M) has decided to stage protests on Thursday.

Several opined that it was not fair for Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy to cheat farmers

BRS demanded that the crop loan waiver benefit to be extended to all farmers up to Rs.2 lakh of their outstanding debt in banks as promised by the Congress during the Assembly polls

Avula Saritha, Vijaya Reddy were reporting on the status of farm loan waiver scheme in in Kondareddypalli when CM's followers targeted them

Farmers staged dharna blocking roads and raised slogans against the State government for not extending the waiver to them. They said that they were forced to roam around banks to get the scheme. Due to the protest, traffic came to a standstill for a while.

The protests will be held in mandal and constituency headquarters across Telangana to pressurise the State government into fulfilling its loan waiver promises.

Raising slogans, they demanded the State government to waive farm loans up to Rs 2 lakh of all farmers without any conditions

BRS leader and former MP B Vinod Kumar said that the Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy came to power by promising to waive all farm loans on December 9. However, CM waived loans of only 45 percent farmers after eight months.

The agitated farmers took out rallies, squatted on roads holding up traffic, burnt effigies of the Chief Minister, took out funeral procession to register their protests.

Former MLA Peddi Sudarshan Reddy said the grievance cell at Telangana Bhavan was receiving nearly 900 calls every hour, reflecting the widespread issues faced by farmers

On his way to Chinnamulkanur of Chigurumamidi mandal, the Minister stopped his vehicle on seeing a few agricultural labourers engaged in paddy plantation.

Chief Minister Revanth Reddy said six lakh farmers would benefit from the second phase of the farm loan waiver scheme, for which Rs.6,198 crore was mobilized