The Congress administration has become a curse on farmers, BRS MLA Harish Rao said. Chief Minister Revanth Reddy does not mind if farmers’ death march continues, he added.
He said that the suicide rate of Adilabad farmers is disturbing and that the government is responsible for the deaths of 402 farmers. Declaring that suicides are not a solution for farmers he assured that the BRS will always stand by farmers.
“Let’s fight till the promises given by the Congress are implemented,” Harish said.
He said the BRS will pressure the government till it implements the farm loan waiver scheme in full, provides Rythu Bharosa and gives a bonus of Rs 500 for all crops.
He demanded that the government should pay an ex-gratia of Rs 10 lakh to the families of farmers who had died.
Speaking here on Sunday Harish said that one more farmer named Rathod Gokul had committed suicide in Adilabad after a farmer committed suicide inside a bank.
He asked the CM who is claiming that his government had waived farm loans to explain whether the CM is not seeing farmers ending their lives due to harassment by banks. He asked why the Revanth Government is troubling farmers who feed the nation.
Harish said that suicides by farmers were nothing but murders and that the CM should take responsibility for their deaths.
He said the Congress Government had failed to infuse confidence among farmers and the series of suicides prove that. Farmers are the backbone of the nation but the Congress government is playing games with their lives, he added.
He said that 402 farmers have ended their lives after the Congress took over the administration.
He said that it is shocking that the government is in deep sleep even after all these suicides and that KCR had made agriculture profitable.
Harish said that farmers are doing rounds in and around the collectorate, agricultural department offices and banks and are borrowing by mortgaging their lands. In the end the farmers commit suicide after failing to clear the loans, he said.
The government duped farmers in the name of waiving loans and deceived them by promising a bonus of Rs 500 for paddy, he said.
Harish said that farmers are facing problems due to the absence of Rythu Bharosa funds.
