Fight for cyclone-hit A.P. farmers in Parliament, Jagan tells YSRCP MPs

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The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) president and erstwhile Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has instructed the party’s MPs to powerfully rise the astir urgent nationalist issues of Andhra Pradesh successful the Parliament sessions opening connected Monday. 

“The combat successful Parliament indispensable centre astir the terrible distress facing farmers owed to cyclone harm and the illness of Minimum Support Price crossed large crops, which has pushed the agriculture assemblage into a crisis,” helium said.

Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy, connected Sunday, expressed superior interest implicit the devastation caused by Cyclone Montha, which destroyed lakhs of acres of crops successful coastal districts. '’Farmers who mislaid their full harvest are nether unbearable fiscal unit arsenic neither the State nor the Centre has provided compensation. Adding to their woes is the implicit nonaccomplishment to guarantee the Minimum Support Price (MSP). While the erstwhile YSRCP authorities guaranteed MSP done RBKs and nonstop procurement, the contiguous authorities has abandoned farmers, leaving them to beryllium exploited by traders and middlemen,’’ helium said.

'’The MSP has fallen sharply crossed large crops, including paddy, maize, achromatic gram, cotton, reddish gram, banana, mirchi and mango, pushing farmers into utmost hardship,'’ helium said, adding that the MPs indispensable importune connected exigency alleviation funds and contiguous restoration of assured MSP procurement.

The YSRCP main said that escaped harvest insurance, which was provided automatically and without premium nether the erstwhile YSRCP government, had present been denied, leaving farmers unprotected during earthy calamities. Input subsidy was besides not being provided. The authorities had stopped the enumeration of e-crop, causing chaos successful harvest information and denying farmers eligibility for compensation and support, helium said.. Chilli farmers were promised fiscal enactment but were deceived, and mango farmers were near helpless arsenic the authorities failed to guarantee companies paid their committed share, helium added.

Alleging that 18.63 lakh MGNREGA occupation cards had been removed, depriving agrarian families of livelihood security, helium demanded contiguous restoration of genuine occupation cards and merchandise of pending wages.

The erstwhile CM directed the MPs to reason the ongoing '’attempt to privatise the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant successful parts'’, informing that inviting backstage players to instrumentality implicit idiosyncratic units was a unsafe way toward afloat privatisation. He said the sacrifices of thousands of farmers, who gave onshore and adjacent their lives for the works indispensable not beryllium betrayed. He demanded contiguous cancellation of partial-privatisation plans, allocation of captive robust ore mines and revival of the works to support the livelihood of thousands of workers and declaration employees.

Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy called upon the MPs to combat for pending cardinal funds, employment instauration and the wide extortion of Andhra Pradesh’s rights and welfare, stating that the dependable of the radical indispensable beryllium heard powerfully successful Parliament.

Published - November 30, 2025 08:03 p.m. IST

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