Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader and former Minister for Agriculture S. Niranjan Reddy has alleged that the Congress party has betrayed the farming community and people of Telangana in wholesale as its Government in the State has failed to keep most of the promises made before the elections, particularly the ones made to farmers.
Addressing a press conference here on Monday, he said the drought conditions prevailing in the State now were not natural but man-made as it was due to the failure of the Congress Government to make necessary interventions at the appropriate time.
He ridiculed the Congress leaders questioning the commitment of former Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao towards the agriculture sector as it was he who had introduced innovative schemes such as Rythu Bandhu and Rythu Bima to give timely input/investment support to farmers ahead of the two agricultural seasons and providing them with life insurance cover with benefit of ₹5 lakh to the immediate survivors on the death of insured farmer, irrespective of the cause of death.
