Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Tuesday lashed out at Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao’s ‘uncaring attitude’ to the farm sector that was pushing farmers, a majority of them small and marginal to the brink of disaster.
At a meeting of the Kisan Congress, including chairman M. Kodanda Reddy, vice-president Ponnam Prabhakar, general secretary Mahesh and others, he referred to the pre-poll promise of Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao that he would waive farm loans up to Rs. 1 lakh. Of a total of Rs.17,028 crore of farm loans that he had promised to waive in four instalments, only Rs.8,798 crore in two tranches was waived, he pointed out.
‘No fresh loans’
Another 3.5 lakh women across Telangana had hocked their gold and with the earlier loans being unpaid, banks are not sanctioning fresh loans, Mr. Uttam Kumar alleged.
This is a particularly dangerous phenomenon considering that kharif season had started this year. Added to the farmers’ woes is that quality seed is not reaching them as promised.
Inaugurating a training programme for Congress leaders in local bodies, he said a similar full-day programme for municipal corporators would be held on July 8 at the Prakasam Hall in Gandhi Bhavan.
On the occasion of Tuesday’s programme, party leader Kuruva Vijay Kumar was appointed as TPCC official spokesperson.
