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Stop repaying all crop loans: Naidu

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We will waive all the loans of the poor when we come to power, he says

– Photo: T. Vijaya Kumar

‘Mee Kosam’: Telugu Desam Party president Nara Chandrababu Naidu addressing a public meeting in Vinukonda in Guntur district on Sunday.

VINUKONDA (Guntur Dt.): Telugu Desam Party president Nara Chandrababu Naidu in a shocking appeal to people has asked the loanee farmers to stop repaying all their crop loans with immediate effect and assured them that nothing would go wrong as his party would fight for waiver of entire loan amount of all farmers.

As part of his ‘Mee Kosam’ chaitanya yatra on the first day on Sunday of the four-day programme in Guntur district, at the meetings on road-side villages, he appealed to the farmers not to repay their loans.

The Congress Government in the State and at the Centre in the name of helping farmers had brought very little benefit to the community as only 10 per cent of ryots would get benefited out of this scheme to a very small extent.

“We have been demanding waiver of all loans, but the Congress Government had only announced for crop loans. We will waive all the loans of the poor when we come to power, pay a stipend of Rs.500 to all unemployed persons,” he added.

Good response

Buoyed by the good response from the people, who flocked in large numbers at every intersection of a major village, he criticised the Congress Government for not implementing the Indiramma housing scheme and said that the TDP would get all the houses constructed free-of-cost for the poor.

Women came in large numbers with traditional welcome gestures giving ‘harati’ and breaking coconuts and Telugu Yuvatha looked very buoyant after a long gap under the leadership of newly appointed district president B. Srinivasa Yadav.

People came in large numbers at Vinukonda Shivayya Stupam, met patients at a free medical camp at Sivapuram and met a group of physically challenged people on his way from Kothapalem to Vinukonda. He reached Narsaraopet by night .

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