TDP has scant respect for norms, alleges YSRCP

Reiterating its demand of waiving all farm and women groups’ loans without any pre-conditions, Ysr Congress has said the TDP government has scant respect for democratic norms and has been sidestepping the prime election promises with irrelevant and incoherent remarks.

“The Agriculture Minister Pulla Rao’s remark asking farmers to first clear the debts only shows the bankruptcy of policy and lack of commitment by Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu to waive agriculture loans even as the finance minister boasts of a Rs 1 lakh crore budget” Party MLA G Srikanth Reddy told reporters here on Tuesday.

The Bankers’ meet has pegged the agriculture loans at Rs 82,000 crores which should be waived immediately along with the DWACRA loans as bankers are putting farmers and women groups to inconvenience and treating them as defaulters though they were carried away by the election promise of Chandrababu Naidu, which he is failing keep it up after being elected, though with a small margin of less than 2 % vote share.

Not honouring the loan waiver promise only shows that Chandrababu Naidu has scant respect for democratic norms and his cabinet colleagues speaking in different voices is bereft of the conviction to keep up the poll promises, he said.

The promises given to farmers, women and students are yet to be fulfilled and the budget session is slated later in the month. TDP government is not bothered about the departmental standing committees as it seems to have no belief in democratic norms.

The committees are a cushion to ensure that there are no guillotines and the budget is thoroughly discussed and debated. The Government is busy in searching for ways to pool up finances and is shamefully thinking in terms of mortgaging live red sanders trees and sand quarries though it is illegal to cut the trees and carry out sand mining, he said.