The protesting farmers reminded that Rahul Gandhi had promised Rs 15,000 per acre to every farmer, Rs12,000 under Indiramma Athmeeya Bharosa, and Rs 2,500 per month to every woman under the Maha Lakshmi scheme. However, they pointed out that Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy is now implementing the crop investment support only for farmers of a single village in the mandal.
Speaking at Telangana Bhavan on Thursday, Niranjan Reddy, who heads the BRS Study Committee on farmers' Issues, ridiculed Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy's claims of providing Rythu Bharosa to farmers and Indiramma Atmeeya Bharosa to farm labourers
The incident occurred in Kalwakurthy on January 27. Like their counterparts in Achampet, farmers were staging a protest demanding remunerative price for groundnut
To organise series of farmer protests in all district headquarters across Telangana, demanding the Congress government to fulfil its commitment to farmers of the State
In their representation at the Prajavani programme, they informed officials that their crop loans were not waived. Farmers, who had crop loans of below Rs 2 lakh, also not did get the benefit
Questions whether Congress came to power with votes of only one village per mandal and whether their election manifesto was applicable to only one village per mandal
Denial of approvals for fresh borrowings, coupled with poor revenue, also spells doom for other schemes, including Indiramma houses, Indiramma Atmeeya Bharosa and ration cards
He opined that it was unfair to delay extending crop investment support to 500 farmers citing a handful of ineligible farmers. He maintained that the government was not moving in the right direction and path
At a few places, villagers argued with officials that names of ineligible persons were included in the list and that genuine beneficiaries were left out
Sharing the CCTV footage of farmer's suicide on social media, BRS working president KT Rama Rao called it a gut-wrenching testament to the Congress government's failed administration
