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TDP seeks input subsidy for ryots

Staff Reporter

Party for facility irrespective of land holding

ANANTAPUR: The district unit of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) staged a dharna in front of the RDO's office here on Friday demanding sanction of input subsidy, compensation for crop loss suffered during the 2005 kharif season to all farmers irrespective of their land holding.

Former MP and Polit Bureau member K. Srinivasulu said that the stipulation that farmers having more than five acres of land were not eligible for the benefit was meaningless, at least for Anantapur district. Even farmers having more than 10 acres of land had to struggle hard even to mobilise money to take up cultivation every year, he explained.

Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy was swept to power in the name of farmers but he appeared to be forgetting them after coming to power, he alleged. The TDP would fight for farmers' problems, including the injustice being done in the name of input subsidy until they were resolved.

Former Minister P. Shamanthakamani demanded the Government to announce the severe drought conditions prevailing in the current kharif season as a `national calamity' as more than 50 per cent of the normally cropped area had been left unsown this season due to scanty rainfall.

Even the sown seed did not germinate properly. The sparsely germinated crop was in the processing of withering due to the continuing dry spell for about two months now, she explained.

District president V. Hanumantharaya Chowdary alleged that the two ministers J.C. Diwakar Reddy and N. Raghuveera Reddy from the district and Anantapur MP A. Venkatarami Reddy, who always claims himself a friend of farmers, were turning a blind eye on the woes of farmers in the current season.

Former minister K. Jayaram and former MP K.M. Saifullah also spoke.

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