Taking strong exception to the language of State Congress president Uttam Kumar Reddy against Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao and his government, Agriculture Minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy said one should maintain dignity and decorum in politics.
Referring to the Congress leader’s remark that “KCR rule was a curse on Telangana State”, Mr.Srinivas Reddy said the TRS government was paying for the 60-year sins of Congress.
Speaking to mediapersons on the sidelines of training programme for Agriculture Department officers at Agriculture University here on Thursday he reminded them that while the Congress leaders looted public money by appointing auto rickshaw drivers and others as Adarsh Rythus as per their whims and fancy, the TRS government was making a sincere and transparent effort to organise farmers into a federation.
Long neglect
Farmers’ suicides were the culmination of decades of neglect suffered under the successive Congress governments, he alleged. “Had the Congress rulers provided irrigation facility, nine hour power, farmers would not have been in distress and debt trap,” he said.
On Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy’s comment that the organisation that announced Agriculture award to Mr. Chandrasekhar Rao was a bogus one, Mr. Srinivas Reddy they would take any appreciation from anyone, big or small, for the good work done as a blessing.
The Telangana government had taken up construction of irrigation projects to irrigate one crore acres, enhanced godown capacity from four lakh tonnes to 22 lakh tonnes, ended shortage of fertilisers and seeds, announced ₹8,000 input assistance per acre to farmers from next year, appointing 2,630 Agriculture Extension Officers for every 5,000 acres in a farmers’ cluster, setting up agro-processing units, constituting farmers’ coordination committees.
“Telangana is being developed as a model State in agriculture,” he said.
