It Is Congress That Is Anti-Farmer: TRS

Deputy CM Kadiam Srihari and TRS MLAs V Srinivas Goud, Jeevan Reddy and others today accused the Congress leaders of merely pretending to have some affection for the farmers.

Srihari criticized the Congress leaders obstructing the house shouting slogans and holding placards, and called it a sheer violation of legislature norms.

He also condemned Congress chief Uttam Kumar Reddy calling the TRS government anti-farmer. He attributed the farmers' suicides, the power problem and related issues to the inefficiency and failure of the previous government. The TRS had announced Rs 4,000 per acre for two seasons besides waiving off Rs 17,000 crores in farmers' loans, he pointed out. Also, the TRS government was supplying uninterrupted power to the farming activity for the last three years, he said. The Congress leaders only looted public money during their regime and deceived the farmers and the common man by not implementing any welfare schemes, he claimed.

Srihari said that the Congress was always coming in the way of projects. The land acquisition act was meant for speedy completion of irrigation projects, and the bill when passed would help get the Centre's nod quickly, helping the government move ahead with things. The opposition should stop making false comments against the land bill and welfare schemes to somehow portray the government in poor light, he said. Despite all the opposition's hurdles, the government would make efforts to complete all the irrigation projects and turn every farmer into a king, he said.

TRS MLAs V Srinivas Goud, Jeevan Reddy and others alleged that it was in fact the Congress that was conspiring against the farmers. The Congress leaders holding placards, shouting slogans and pushing back the marshals was all a plan made in advance to disrupt the house for political mileage, they said. The Congress should have given its views on the amendments to the land acquisition act instead of making the deliberate attempts to disturb the house, and the Congress legislators' attempt to stall the debate on the issue was only to prevent exposure of their misdeeds during the previous regime, the TRS legislators claimed. It was a known fact that the Congress which had failed to complete the projects was now coming in the way by moving courts, they added.

Amendments to the land acquisition act were needed as the government was determined to complete all the new projects by acquiring land as per norms, they said.