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Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minister K. Atchannaidu connected Thursday came down heavy connected erstwhile Chief Minister and YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy dubbing him arsenic the “Ambassador of Lies” and accusing him of misleading farmers and the nationalist with mendacious claims.
Speaking to the media, Mr. Atchannaidu said the confederation government’s show implicit the past 18 months highlights the failures of the erstwhile YSRCP administration.
The Minister claimed that the cultivation assemblage suffered terrible setbacks during Mr. Jagan’s tenure and alleged that the erstwhile CM is attempting to disguise these failures done misinformation. He said the existent authorities has ensured transparency successful decision-making and robust enactment systems for farmers, dissimilar the unfulfilled guarantees of the erstwhile regime.
Mr. Atchannaidu cited pending payments of ₹1,674 crore for paddy procurement near by the YSRCP, which the confederation authorities cleared promptly. Since assuming office, helium said, the medication has released ₹13,858 crore for kharif and rabi 2024–25 paddy procurement, with 95% of payments made wrong 48 hours.
The Minister besides highlighted marketplace involution initiatives, noting that implicit ₹800 crore was spent successful 16 months to stabilise harvest prices for tobacco, mango, onion, cocoa, and tomato, compared with lone ₹1,475 crore spent by the erstwhile government. Additionally, ₹310 crore successful input subsidies has reached 2 lakh farmers since June 2024, and compensation was provided to the families of 81 farmers who died by termination during the YSRCP rule.
Challenging Mr. Jagan to a nationalist statement connected cultivation policies, Mr. Atchannaidu asserted that the confederation authorities is restoring husbandman assurance and reviving agriculture, portion informing that governmental attempts to obstruct improvement would beryllium rejected by the people.
