Govt Should Help Farmers Get Loans: YSR Congress

Demanding that the TDP government in Andhra Pradesh immediately take steps towards arranging for finances to the farmers as the Kharif season was on hand, the YSR Congress Party reiterated that the loans of DWACRA groups and weavers should be waived off immediately.

"We demand that the government take immediate steps to enable all farmers to get agriculture loans with the onset of monsoon, and also clear the dues of DWACRA groups and weavers," party Deputy Floor leader Jyothula Nehru told reporters on Monday.

The AP government had been looking for ways to escape the loan waiver on some pretext or the other, and was trying hard to manipulate the Kotaiah Committee Report which was constituted to study the logistics of waiving loans.

"In the first place there is no need to set up a committee, as waiver of all agricultural loans was the prime poll promise of the TDP, and it was the first file Chandrababu Naidu signed. The Committee formation is only to bide time and push the issue of waiving loans into cold storage.
We will not allow this, and demand that the State government immediately make arrangements for the farmers to get loans for agricultural operations," Nehru demanded.

He also said that the Committee created to advise on the building of the State's new capital was constituted by the government sans public involvement, and appeared to be a TDP Committee.

Instead, Nehru said, all stakeholders should be partners in the building of the new capital, including the main opposition party.

Setting up a committee ahead of following the norms mentioned in State Reorganisation Bill made the Committee redundant, he stated. (INN)