BJP Seeks Immediate Relief For Telangana Farmers

Telangana BJP president G Kishan Reddy on Sunday urged the TRS Government to implement the promise of waiving off crop loans.

Addressing a press conference, Kishan Reddy said that the Kharif season had arrived, and farmers were worried over the delay in the waiving off of their farm loans.

He said that the banks would not sanction new loans unless the old loans were settled. Therefore he demanded that the State Government take immediate steps to provide relief to the farmers.

He also asked government to provide better quality seeds to the farmers.

Reddy also asked Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to clarify how he proposed to resolve the energy crisis.

Referring to the claims that Telangana would be a power-surplus State in the next 3 years, he asked the State government to make a detailed statement in this connection.

Speaking about the Polavaram Project issue, Kishan Reddy said that the ordinance merging 7 mandals of Khammam district with residuary Andhra Pradesh was prepared by the previous UPA regime, and that the BJP government at the Centre only issued it. Therefore, he said that it was wrong to blame the BJP government on the issue.

Accusing the TRS of trying to adopt a confrontationist attitude towards the Centre, Reddy criticised the State government's promise of providing 12% reservation to Muslims.

He said that the 4% Muslim reservation case was still pending in the Supreme Court, and now the TRS Government was proposing a 12% quota.

He said that the BJP was against reservations on the basis of religion. However, he said that the Party was not against reservations for poor Muslims. (INN)