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Kadapa MP Y.S. Avinash Reddy connected Thursday demanded the authorities to allocate chickpea seeds to the scores of farmers who reportedly paid wealth to a section Horticulture Assistant presently connected the run. As the authorities unit allegedly absconded with the ₹20 lakh wealth paid for 900 kg of chickpea seeds, implicit 120 farmers consciousness cheated and are successful a authorities of desperation.
Pacifying the agitated farmers astatine Simhadripuram mandal successful Pulivendula constituency present connected Thursday, Mr. Avinash Reddy pointed retired that nary enactment had been taken though 3 weeks had passed since the section authoritative ran distant with the farmers’ money.
“The unit subordinate gave acknowledgement slips signed connected achromatic paper, immoderate adjacent without the authoritative rubber stamp people to the farmers who paid the amount. Some farmers adjacent paid him wealth towards proviso of urea. The guiltless farmers should not beryllium penalised arsenic the authorities unit is the culprit here,” helium said.
The MP warned of an agitation successful enactment of the farmers, if the District Collector failed to settee the contented wrong a week.
