Leader Of Opposition in Andhra Pradesh Assembly Y S Jaganmohan Reddy launched a two-day protest for farmers in Guntur demanding government support for them.
Leader Of Opposition in Andhra Pradesh Assembly and YSR Congress Party chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy today launched a two-day Rythu Deeksha (protest for farmers) in Guntur demanding that the State government support and ensure justice for the farmers in the state.
Addressing a mammoth gathering at the deeksha site on the Nallapadu road in the city, Jagan said that the plight of the farmers in the state was deteriorating year after year after the Chandrababu Naidu government had ditched them by defaulting on Rs 4,894 crores of input subsidy in the last three years.
"The man who staged dharnas demanding Rs 10,000 to Rs 15,000 input subsidy for each farmer when he was in the Opposition, has completely ignored the issue after becoming the Chief Minister," Jagan said.
He claimed that every farmer in the state was undergoing turmoil due to the unfavorable conditions for farming as well as for selling the produce in the market. The prices of turmeric, chilli, tomatoes and even onions had gone down drastically, and the farmers were sleeping on the roads for days together as there were no buyers at the markets, he said. The farmers also didn't have sufficient cold-storage facilities, and the charges were being hiked in the commercial facilities, compounding the problem, he claimed. And yet the government was not taking any action to safeguard their interests, Jagan lamented.
He expressed hope that his two-day deeksha would open the CM's eyes and make him do something to mitigate the farmers' problems.
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