Union Minister and state BJP president G. Kishan Reddy on Monday sat on a protest “Rythu Deeksha” at the party office in Hyderabad, over the Congress government’s “failure” to fulfil the promises made to farmers. He demanded the government to pay Rs 25,000 per acre compensation to farmers whose crops were withered due to lack of irrigation water supply.
He lamented that the Congress government has not implemented even a single guarantee given to farmers. He recalled that during the election campaign, the Congress leaders had promised to waive farm loans up to Rs 2 lakh but even four months after coming to power, it has failed to deliver on the promise. He recalled that Chief Minister Revanth Reddy had promised that new farm loans would be waived on December 9.
Kishan Reddy also demanded that the government immediately provide Rs.15,000 per acre investment support to farmers as promised during the elections. He also demanded the implementation of the guarantee to provide Rs.12,000 every year to agriculture labourers and Rs 500 bonus per quintal of paddy. He wondered if the government had a concrete plan to implement the guarantees given to farmers.
He deplored that the Congress government is not sincere in procuring agricultural produce from farmers. “They had promised to implement the guarantees in 100 days but failed to do so,” he said. He said if the government is sincere in implementing the guarantees, it should come out with a plan and also explain to people how it wants to mobilise funds for implementing them.
