Telangana Hyderabad - Harish Rao demands Rs.25,000 compensation per acre
Aside from this, motors were blowing up and transformers were burning up. He accused the congress Ministers of failing to console the grieving families, even as farmers committed suicide.
The unfortunate thing was that even though the congress administration had access to water from the River Godavari, the farming community was not receiving it.
According to him, as a result, almost 20 lakh acres of agricultural land dried up and many more standing crops suffered damage from unseasonal rainfall. The former minister chastised the congress, particularly for not keeping the promises given to the farmers. The congress had promised the farmers the moon before the assembly elections.
In a same vein, he said that although farmers were not receiving the Rs. 10,000 that the BRS administration had provided, they had been promised Rs. 15,000 under Rythu Bharosa. Farmers, tenant farmers, and agricultural laborers had all been deceived by Congress.
He went on to say that the Ministers had to, at the very least, put hyderabad politics aside right now in order to examine the damaged crops and assist the farmers.