YSRC president Y S Jaganmohan Reddy today mounted a scathing attack against TDP chief and Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu for failure to keep up the promises made on the eve of elections, and alleged that 86 farmers have committed suicide. They voted to TDP believing that Chandrababu Naidu will waive off their loans.
Addressing a Maha Dharna here, Jaganmohan Reddy announced that he will meet the victim’s families to console them, after Sankranti festival.
It was a fact that there was arrears of Rs.87,000 crore farmers’ loans. Everybody including Chandrababu Naidu knew it. But, the former has changed his version after the elections stating that he spoke about crop loans and not farmers’ loans, Jagan said adding that there were about one crore farmers, but the TDP government is providing financial help to only 22 lakh people.
Criticising the TDP rule, the YSRC president asked when the chief minister would give unemployment allowance and said he is playing with the lives of old people in regard to sanctioning pensions to them. Jagan also flayed Naidu for deceiving the DWCRA women in regard to loans waiver.
Jagan also condemned the way TDP government has distributed food pockets during the time of Hudhud cyclone.
He said that the farmers lost 65.98 lakh acres of crops due to Hudhud, but not a single rupee was given as crop insurance as farmers did not pay their loan installment believing that Chandrababu would waive off loans.
Jagan also said that Chandrababu has done nothing for the fisher-folk. He said this is only the beginning and more protests would follow. He thanked everyone for supporting the Maha Dharna.
Jagan further said there were 43.11 lakh welfare pensions at the time of Naidu taking over. Since October, even the existing pensions are not being given. While Rs 3000 crore was needed for paying pensions, the budgetary allocation is only 1300 crore. This means pensions worth Rs 2400 crore have been cut.
He also said that while Rs 2400 crore is needed for fee reimbursement, Chandrababu Naidu has not allocated even a single rupee.