The second phase of the Rythu Bandhu, the farmers investment support scheme, for the current financial year is likely to be implemented by the new government which will come to power after results for the Assembly elections are declared on December 3.
Amid talk that the State government is likely to advance the second phase for disbursing the assured ₹5,000 an acre to farmers before the elections, office of the Chief Electoral Officer, has not received any such request from the government so far. “No such request (advancing Rythu Bandhu) has been received,” a senior official told The Hindu.
The comment comes at a time when BRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao has charged the Congress with creating obstacles in the implementation of Rythu Bandhu during the public meetings he addressed in some districts which the Congress strongly refuted.
