Jagan spreading falsehood on farmers’ welfare, says Andhra Pradesh Civil Supplies Minister Nadendla Manohar

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Andhra Pradesh Minister for Civil Supplies Nadendla Manohar. File

Andhra Pradesh Minister for Civil Supplies Nadendla Manohar. File | Photo Credit: K.V.S. GIRI

Civil Supplies Minister Nadendla Manohar connected Thursday criticised YSRCP president Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy for “spreading falsehood” regarding farmers’ welfare.

Addressing the media, Mr. Manohar asserted that the YSRCP authorities had misled farmers, portion the NDA dispensation, nether Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and Deputy Chief Minister K. Pawan Kalyan, was ensuring transparency, support, and timely interventions.

During Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy’s five-year term, a 75-kg container of paddy had fetched betwixt ₹1,416 and ₹1,650, whereas the conjugation authorities raised the minimum enactment terms (MSP) to ₹1,792, ensuring amended returns, Mr. Manohar said.

He alleged that the YSRCP authorities had encouraged middlemen, caused unnecessary delays, and implemented a random paddy transportation strategy that forced farmers to merchantability the nutrient astatine a little complaint and endure losses.

Kharif procurement

Mr. Manohar noted that during the existent kharif season, the NDA authorities procured 14 lakh MT of paddy from astir six lakh farmers, surpassing the quantum procured nether the erstwhile YSRCP administration. Payments were made promptly, with implicit ₹3,350 crore credited to the farmers’ slope accounts wrong hours, dissimilar delays of up to 9 months nether the YSRCP term, the Minister added.

He besides highlighted the proactive catastrophe alleviation measures, including organisation of tarpaulins escaped of outgo to support crops during floods and storms, and the Deepam scheme, nether which 3 escaped LPG cylinders were disbursed successful 3 phases to 2.85 crore beneficiaries.

Urging citizens to recognise facts implicit propaganda, Mr. Manohar said that governmental narratives should not override existent husbandman needs. He exhorted the radical to justice governance by outcomes alternatively than rhetoric, and cautioned them against being misled by the YSRCP leaders.

Published - December 04, 2025 07:40 p.m. IST

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