KTR accuses Congress of pushing Telangana farmers into crisis

BRS working president KT Rama Rao charged that the Congress government’s Indiramma Rajyam (Indiramma’s governance) had pushed Telangana into a crisis and left every section of society disillusioned. He said Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy had signed a death warrant for Telangana farmers by restricting paddy procurement to the quantity approved by the Centre.

“The Congress government promised to buy every paddy grain and offered a Rs 500 bonus per quintal before coming to power. But now it has jeopardised the livelihood of every farmer in the State by linking



procurement to the Centre’s quota and restricting it to just seven varieties,” he remarked.

Addressing a constituency-level BRS activists’ meeting in Wardhannapet on Monday, Rama Rao turned the Chief Minister’s own words against him. “As the then TPCC president, Revanth Reddy once accused the previous BRS government of acting as Prime Minister Modi’s broker whenever it followed Central directives. Today, he is doing even worse,” he said, warning that from the next agricultural season, farmers would have no assurance of procurement beyond the Central quota.