Telangana TDP Leaders Slam KCR On Farmers' Suicides

Telangana Telugu Desam Party leaders Errabelli Dayakar Rao and L Ramana on Friday charged the TRS government with driving the distressed farmers of the State to committing suicides due to their "criminal negligence and apathy".

Speaking to mediapersons, the TTDP leaders said that while irrigation minister Harish Rao stuck to shooting off a letter to the Centre over the suicides, Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was doing even lesser - nothing - to wipe the tears of the farming community though he could waive off the remaining crop loans of the farmers that the TRS had committed to waiving off, in one installment.

The TTDP leaders alleged that the ministers' statements on farmers' suicides proved that the government and the Chief Minister lacked the sincerity to rise to the occasion and prevent further suicides by farmers. They also pointed out that while Maharashtra Chief Minister Devander Fadnavis was visiting agriculture market yards to console the distressed farmers in that State, KCR was spending his time in his farmhouse.