In a strong retort to the Opposition criticism on the alleged lack of support to the farming community in Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has said his government has spent Rs. 1.28 lakh crore on various subsidies and schemes for farmers in three years.
Bordering on an election speech, he spoke about the revolution being brought in for quality education, giving a competition to private dairies by bringing in Amul to enhance milk procurement price, and the alleged instigation by opposition parties to oppose naming Konaseema district after Dr.B.R. Ambedkar. Laughing away the theory of ‘Crop Holiday’ in Konaseema, allegedly being propagated by the TDP and the media houses supporting the TDP with ‘vested-interest’, the Chief Minister said there was no such proposal anywhere.
Giving a strong and detailed reply to the opposition parties’ demand for a White Paper on what the YSRCP government had done for farmers in three years, Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy repeatedly, in his 20-minute speech at the public meeting here on the occasion of disbursing Rs.29,77.82 crore compensation under the YSR Free Crop Insurance Scheme to 15,60,703 farmers Statewide, said, “mark the change,” to highlight the difference between the five-year regime of the TDP and the three years of the YSRCP rule so far.
