Congress MP and former TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said tenant farmers are the worst-hit with no financial or insurance support by both the BJP government at the Centre and the TRS government in the State.
He said in a statement on Wednesday that a written reply by Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar to a question raised by him in the Lok Sabha has exposed the injustice being done to tenant farmers in the country, especially in Telangana.
“By simply saying that 'Landholding is the primary condition for eligibility for Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN), the Central government is declaring that it doesn’t care for millions of landless tenant farmers across India. Similarly, the Telangana government has not included tenant farmers in Rythu Bandhu scheme that provides investment support to farmers,” he said.
