Harish Rao blames Congress for Telangana urea crisis

Former Minister and senior BRS MLA T Harish Rao on Tuesday held the Congress government responsible for the acute urea crisis gripping Telangana. He accused Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy of negligence and misplaced priorities.

In a statement, Harish Rao said farmers, who should be in their fields, were instead forced to stand in queues on roads for days, clutching Aadhaar cards and passbooks, waiting for urea bags. “Notwithstanding weather, time and days, farmers are standing in



queues and fainting due to exhaustion. Cotton is in the budding stage and rice is in the belly stage. Without urea, crops will fail,” he warned.

Slamming the State government for prioritising “muddy and vendetta politics” in the Assembly instead of addressing farmers’ distress, he said the Congress was holding political meetings while ignoring the worsening crisis in villages. Farmers’ protests and highway blockades were evidence of the government’s failure, he said.