Union Minister for Tourism, Culture and Development of Northeast Region and TS BJP president G. Kishan Reddy on Thursday claimed that the farmers here had been under deep distress with as many as 6,000 of them committing suicide in the last nine years of TRS/BRS rule.
“Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has hoodwinked the farmers in promising to bring one crore acres under cultivation, round-the-clock power to agriculture, loan waiver, seed bowl, free fertilizer supply and so on, but not fulfilling them,” he charged at the inauguration of the PM Kisan Seva Centre at Shamirpet. It was first of the estimated 4,900 fertilizer shops to be upgraded in phases across TS.
The Minister said that while the Modi Government at the Centre had doubled the minimum support price for crops over the years, the KCR Government had not even provided the ₹10,000 for each acre lost during the unseasonal rains a few months ago.
