Telangana TDP president L Ramana today charged the TRS government with giving Rs 4,000 assistance per acre to farmers under the Rythu Bandhu scheme was an election gimmick.
The TTDP chief was speaking at a function after hosting a tricolour and party flag on the occasion of Telangana Formation Day at the NTR Trust Bhavan. He said the people had voted to the TRS with the hope that their lives would be improved after separate Telangana State was formed.
Alleging that the TRS government has miserably failed to prevent suicides of farmers and some 4,000 farmers resorted to suicides due to the government’s apathy, Ramana said only 400 of them got compensation. He also said some 1,200 persons sacrificed their lives during the separate State movement. He also said his party would issue a GO immediately after returning to power in 2019 providing finance assistance of Rs 10 lakh each to all those who had sacrificed their lives during the separate State movement besides providing one job to a family member.
Earlier, Ramana handed over financial assistance of Rs 50,000 to a party worker Prem, who has undertaken a tour of the State on bicycle. He said another Rs 50,000 would be put as a fix deposit in a bank on his name. Party politburo member Ravula Chandrasekhar Reddy, national official spokesperson Arvind Kumar Goud, party general secretary Bandru Shobharani, State official spokesperson N Durga Prasad and others attended the function. (NSS)