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YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) determination coordinator and erstwhile Minister Karumuri Venkata Nageswara Rao connected Tuesday said farmers successful Andhra Pradesh were enduring the “worst situation successful caller memory” nether the TDP-led NDA government.
Dismissing the Rythanna Meekosam programme arsenic a publicity stunt, orchestrated for optics with enactment workers successful greenish shawls, alternatively than a genuine effort to code the agrarian distress, Mr. Nageswara Rao told the media astatine Tadepalli connected Wednesday that this was thing but a farmers’ deception campaign, with crores of nationalist wealth wasted connected propaganda.
Questioning wherefore Ministers were avoiding nonstop enactment with the farmers adjacent arsenic crops were failing to fetch minimum enactment terms (MSP), helium said paddy, which was expected to merchantability astatine ₹1,770 per quintal, was being sold to middlemen for ₹1,200 to ₹1,300, creating a “broker raj.”
In contrast, the YSRCP authorities had ensured MSP, gunnysacks, hamali charges, transportation, insurance, zero-interest loans, and input subsidies, helium claimed.
Referring to the plight of banana farmers, helium said they were forced to merchantability astatine 50 paise per kg portion consumers wage ₹50, benefiting lone the middlemen.
“The government’s ‘Sampada Srushti’ inaugural has raised the State’s indebtedness to ₹2.66 lakh crore,” helium alleged, and demanded MSP assurance for each crops and beforehand proviso of seeds and fertilizers.
‘Political vendetta’
Meanwhile, erstwhile MLA and YSRCP SC Cell State president T.J.R. Sudhakar Babu accused the authorities of blatantly violating the Constitution and abusing powerfulness to people absorption enactment leaders. He besides accused the authorities of resorting to governmental revenge and filing cases without grounds oregon justification.
The authorities failed to present meaningful advancement successful the past 18 months, and alternatively focused connected suppressing absorption voice, helium said.
Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu was indulging successful “malicious and unethical politics, misusing authorities machinery, and orchestrating arrests of YSRCP leaders without credible eveidence,” helium alleged.
The TDP authorities was relying connected diversion politics, including “dramatised nationalist tours nether the guise of pension distribution,” the YSRCP person said. He besides accused the TDP of fuelling factional disputes that resulted successful murders successful Palnadu and Prakasam districts. YSRCP person Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy’s household was framed successful the execution cases, helium alleged.
Mr. Sudhakar Babu besides condemned the apprehension of erstwhile Minister Jogi Ramesh successful the alleged amerciable liquor case, calling it a politically motivated determination without evidence. He claimed that erstwhile Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy had ne'er resorted to governmental vendetta.
