'Chandrababu should apologize to farmers'

Demanding an apology from the Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu to the farmers for his distorted version on the loan waiver, YSR Congress has said such a turn around by the TDP government will further expose its anti-farmer policy.

“Chandrababu Naidu now telling that he only said that crop loans and not agriculture loans will be waived and each DWACRA member will be paid Rs 1,000 is a total lie as the media advertisements on his swearing-in day and his speeches to the run-up to the elections clearly stated that all agriculture and DWACRA loans will be waived,” Convener of the Party Farmers’ Cell MVS Nagi Reddy told reporters in Hyderabad on Friday.

Right from the padayatra in Ananthapuram to the electioneering, Chandrababu Naidu time and again said that all agriculture and DWACRA loans will be waived and asked the farmers and women groups not to repay loan as they would be waived after TDP comes to power. He had also given an assurance to the Election Commission that the scheme is feasible and TDP has worked out the implementation part.

After assuming office, TDP government has diluted the waiver scheme heavily and Chief Minister telling that he did not promise that agriculture loans would be waived but he only said that crop loans would be written off and Rs 10,000 would be given to each member of the DWACRA groups is nothing short of cheating the farmers as the video clippings and ads given by the TDP government vouch for total waiver, he said.

We demand an apology from the Chief Minister for cheating the farmers and he should revoke his statement that all loans are waived and only the amount should be credited while rescheduling will be done soon.