KCR redefines realpolitik with 35 years in the political cauldron. The 16th plenary of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) at Medchal on Friday, saw the wily chief minister hammering out a blueprint to retain office in 2019 by declaring a bonanza for his largest electorate-farmers.
After waiving farm loans of Rs 17,000 crore, KCR had announced farmers would be given Rs 4,000 per acre every year for fertilizers from 2018-19. That floored farmers. Congress jumped into the fray, claiming KCR stole its idea.
On Friday, the chief minister announced something even more `historic’. “No one has implemented this in the country,” he said. “Every farmer will be given Rs 4,000, not just once, but twice a year,” he announced as party delegates cheered. This would be given in May and October for kharif and rabi crops. That’s not all, this amount would be deposited in banks for farmers to buy not just fertilizers, but anything they need for farming. “I want to make the farmer a king,” KCR said.
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