Coming down heavily on the Telugu Desam Party for reneging on its poll promises, senior Congress leader Anam Vivekananda Reddy has said that the inordinate delay in the implementation of loan waiver has left the farmers in lurch.
Speaking to the media here Tuesday, he said that for over two years, farmers believed the words of Mr. Naidu and did not repay crop loans. “Now their condition is pathetic with the bankers bringing pressure on them for loan repayment,” he said.
He said that it had become a routine for the Chief Minister to shift blame for his failure in keeping the poll promises to lack of adequate support from the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). “Having served for nine years as the CM, Mr. Naidu is not a political novice. Didn’t he know that it would be just impossible to fulfil his poll promises? ” he asked.
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Mr. Vivekananda Reddy said that as a responsible Opposition party, the Congress leadership wanted to wait for at least a year before criticising the TDP government, but the latter’s failures to meet people’s aspirations on various counts had forced the party to begin awareness campaigns against the government’s ‘inaction’. The Congress leaders demanded that the TDP first allocate Rs. 1,000 crore each for all 13 districts for developing infrastructure as the development of capital was not a immediate necessity, owing to the joint capital status of Hyderabad that would last for 10 years.