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Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy challenged the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) to retreat from electoral authorities if the Congress authorities continues escaped energy to farmers without installing meters connected cultivation pump sets.
In a beardown antagonistic onslaught against the BRS implicit the projected Farmer Discom, helium said, “If we instal meters connected cultivation motors oregon discontinue escaped powerfulness to farmers, we volition not contention elections. But if proceed escaped power, volition the BRS discontinue electoral politics?”
In an informal chat with reporters here, the Chief Minister claimed that BRS president K. Chandrashekar Rao was attempting to usage farmers arsenic a governmental shield to revive his party’s fortunes. He maintained that the Farmer Discom was designed to guarantee uninterrupted and prime powerfulness proviso and asserted that the Congress authorities remained afloat committed to providing 24-hour prime escaped powerfulness to farmers.
The Chief Minister said Telangana was pioneering a unsocial Farmer Discom exemplary by integrating energy supplied to agriculture and different subsidised sectors nether a abstracted organisation framework.
On paddy procurement, the Chief Minister said that the State authorities would acquisition each atom produced by Telangana farmers. The Centre announces Minimum Support Price (MSP) but does not bargain adjacent a azygous grain,” helium said. So far, the authorities has procured 62 lakh metric tonnes of paddy, including rain-damaged atom astatine MSP.
Taking a excavation astatine the BJP’s Rythu Bharosa yatra, helium said the Congress would dump paddy successful beforehand of the houses of BJP leaders participating successful the autobus yatra if the Centre neglects its procurement responsibilities. “They should beryllium acceptable for that.”
The Chief Minister besides took objection to disapproval implicit the installation of an NTR statue, saying that attempts to subordinate the precocious person with a peculiar caste oregon portion reflected a constrictive mindset.
Referring to inter-state h2o disputes, Mr. Reddy said Prime Minister Narendra Modi had repeatedly advocated coordination among states for resolving stream h2o issues. However, helium expressed disappointment that efforts to unafraid an assignment with the Maharashtra Chief Minister to sermon the Tummidihatti task had not yielded results.
He besides questioned wherefore the Centre could not widen the aforesaid enactment to Telangana’s h2o projects that it had shown to different States successful the past. Responding to speculation astir section assemblage elections, the Chief Minister said determination was nary urgency regarding elections to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC).
