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APCC blames TDP for ryots' arrest

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Cases for not repaying loans booked during Naidu's regime

HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee has criticised the TDP for trying to make an issue out of the arrest of two farmers from Mahabubnagar district for not clearing farm loans saying the cases were in fact booked during the TDP regime.

"It is unfortunate that the TDP leaders are now acting as saviours of the farming community, when it had blatantly adopted an anti-farmer stand during its nine-year rule," the APCC kisan cell chairman M. Kodanda Reddy, PCC vice-president Md. Jani and APSRTC chairman Gone Prakash Rao told reporters on Tuesday.

Loan repayment

Referring to the arrest and subsequent release of two farmers -- G. Krishnaiah and M. Balakistaiah of Elluru village in Kollapur mandal -- from Cherlapally prison on Monday, the Congress leaders said the two ryots had taken loan from the State Bank of India Elluru branch in 1998 and failed to repay it. The previous TDP Government had filed a case against the two farmers for not repaying their loans in 2001, Mr. Jani alleged. A petition was also filed in the court to prosecute the ryots. He said the TDP had no right to raise a hue and cry when it was solely responsible for the plight of the farmers. "It is nothing but trying to gain political mileage," he added.

The Congress leaders said they would visit the native village of the two farmers in Kollapur mandal and expose the `double standards' of the TDP. They questioned what the then TDP Government was doing when the farmers had committed suicide and sold their kidneys unable to clear the mounting debts.

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