Congress that voted to power in Telangana giving six guarantees, promising to implement within 100 days of coming to power, is now on the defensive as even after six months except free travel to women in TSRTC buses, none of guarantees are fulfilled in true spirit.
Mainly, the Revanth Reddy government’s track record on extending helping hand to the farmers remain in fix. He failed to fulfill his commitment of loan waiver and Rythu Bharosaa, besides assistance to agricultural labourers.
Now, with the decision of the cabinet on Monday evening that the government will provide a Rs 500 bonus only to `lean’ (sanna biyyam), raising uproar in the political circles and also among farmers. The main opposition party BRS is up in arms against the government in this regard.
BRS executive president and former minister K T Rama Rao strongly objected to the government’s decision and said it is a hypocritical Congress brand of fraud, deceit and deception. He wondered that while in its election promises the Congress announced Rs 500 bonus for paddy crop, now confining only to `sanna biyyam’.
He recalled during the election campaign Congress leaders promised to provide a bonus to every grain of rice, but now they are expressing their helplessness. He termed the Revanth Reddy government as an ‘anti- farmer’.
KTR said that till yesterday they struggled as the government failed in providing irrigation water, the crops were dried up with current cuttings, and the hard-earned grain was unable to be bought due to untimely rains.
He recalled that Congress promised that every year Rs.15,000 was promised as Rythu Bharosa to rice farmers and tenant farmers and Rs.12,000 was not given to agricultural labourers. He criticized that every farmer would be given a loan waiver of two lakhs on December 9.
Today, he deplored that even in the matter of bonus, the bogus policy of the government has been exposed. He lamented that it has exposed Congress party’s duality of saying one thing before polls and doing another thing after polls.
