Jana Sena Party (JSP) Political Affairs Committee (PAC) chairman Nadendla Manohar on Thursday said that Andhra Pradesh was facing a humanitarian crisis with the next of kin of hundreds of tenant farmers who had ended their lives since mid-2019 being denied the ex gratia of ₹7 lakh they were entitled to as per G.O. 43.
Quoting the District Crime Records Bureaus statistics, Mr. Manohar told the media that a staggering 1,908 tenant farmers had committed suicide since June 2019, reportedly due to agrarian distress that had trapped them in debts.
