PNS|Vijayawada
TDP national general secretary Nara Lokesh, on Wednesday, promised the sugarcane farmers all possible assistance, including supply of quality fertilisers and pesticides. On the sixth day of his padayatra, Lokesh met the sugarcane farmers at Sake Vuru of Baireddipalle mandal. The farmers narrated their problems including the heavy investment. As a result of the increase in labour charges and prices of seed, fertilisers and pesticides, they were incurring heavy losses, they complained.
The farmers also said that they were not getting the benefits of the Rythu Bharosa scheme and even the Amma Vodi scheme as they had two children each. They wanted the problems of the sugarcane farmers to be resolved after the TDP came back to power.
Later, Lokesh addressed the Valmiki community leaders at Belupalle of Baireddipalle mandal, where he said that Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy had deceived the community by not fulfilling the promises that he had made. “There is no response from the government on the demand of the Valmikis to include them in the list of Scheduled Tribes (STs) and the community members are suffering due to lack of employment opportunities.
“During the TDP regime, the Satyapal Committee was formed to study their problems and a resolution was passed by the Assembly in 2017 to include them in the STs’ list,” the TDP general secretary pointed out.
Promising the Valmiki community that separate companies would be set up in this area to provide employment to them, Lokesh said that he had personally written to Jagan to include the community in the list of STs.
Lokesh also mentioned that not even a single investor had set up any unit in the State during the YSRCP rule. Of the six investors who addressed the recent Global Investors Summit in Davos, four companies were set up in the State during Chandrababu Naidu’s regime while one each was established when the late YS Rajasekhara Reddy and Kiran Kumar Reddy were the chief ministers, he stated.
