The State government set in motion the exercise to prepare modalities for implementing key agriculture schemes like Rythu Bharosa, crop insurance scheme and waiver of crop loans upto Rs.2 lakh obtained by farmers.
Rao had earlier joined the BJP after being denied a ticket by the BRS at the time of the Assembly elections last year. He was expecting a BJP ticket from the Adilabad Parliament segment.
The primary opposition BRS intensified its criticism of the Congress, alleging that the party deliberately ignored and disrespected Dr. BR Ambedkar on his birth anniversary
The farmers, in their letters have also demanded the government to announce Rs.25,000 as compensation for each acre of crop that suffered damages due to unseasonal rains or went dry due to water shortage.
Stating that there was no drinking water scarcity in the BRS regime, Harish Rao said that people were facing troubles for drinking water within four months of the Congress party coming to power in the state.
The former Minister said Priyanka Gandhi had announced during the election campaign that the Congress government would extend financial assistance for unemployed youth in the State.
They staged a protest demonstration on Wednesday demanding the intervention of officials, forcing additional collector Rohit Singh to rush to the marketyard.
Harish Rao said the people of the State had started realising that the Congress could not keep the promises made during the assembly election campaign.
Speaking to party workers at Kodangal on Monday, the Chief Minister said conspiracies were being hatched to defeat Congress in his constituency in the Lok Sabha elections.
Forum president M Padmanabha Reddy on Monday wrote to the Chief Minister urging him to implement the Supreme Court's order with regard to police reforms.
In a statement released to the media he alleged that the anti-naxal operation carried out by Telangana’s Greyhounds and Bijapur police was a result of information given by a ‘traitor’.
A departmental inquiry was ordered against him to probe the allegations of supporting land grabbers. He alleged Raveendra intentionally delayed the inquiry to block his promotion.