Congress MLC Jeevan Reddy targets KCR government

Hyderabad, March 21 (Maxim News): Congress MLC T. Jeevan Reddy today lambasted Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and alleged that the latter was harassing the farmers.

Speaking to media persons at Jagitial, Reddy predicted that it was the last Annual budget for the TRS government. He alleged that the Chief Minister had forgotten his promise of providing crop loan waiver of up to ₹75,000 to the farmers. He demanded that the Chief Minister provide fresh loans to the farmers by acting as a guarantor to banks.

He mocked that KCR was the only CM, who did not attend the meeting of the state level banker’s committee. He said the farmers had cultivated only 50 percent of the actual annual quantity of the paddy due to the appeal of the Chief Minister to not cultivate it and added that the State was getting only 50 lakh metric tonnes of the paddy as yield this year as against the actual production on one crore metric tonnes. He also said the cultivation of the paddy worth ₹10,000 crore was reduced in the State this year. He told KCR that the Congress party was ready to extend its support to the CM against this fight with the Central government on the issue of the paddy procurement while mocking that if the CM will bow down on the feet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi after meeting him in Delhi. He also alleged that the TRS had suspended three MLAs of rival BJP from the recent budget session in order to give it an Opposition party status. He termed that the Union government was an anti-farmer government and alleged that the BJP was a party that support only corporate companies. He also demanded that the State government provide ₹10,000 per acre as compensation to the farmers after declaring a crop holiday. He also demanded that the State government provide crop loan waiver of ₹ 1 lakh to the farmers in the ongoing financial year . (Maxim News)

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