YSR Congress Party on Thursday accused the Chandrababu Naidu government in Andhra Pradesh of cheating the farmers in the name of loan waiver and resorting to cheap gimmicks and publicity tricks on the issue.
“The publicity being doled out that TDP has fulfilled its promise on loan waiver is misleading and a total fallacy as there is not a single farmer whose loan is totally waived and we have a case study on the method of deception being adopted by the State,” party farmers’ cell convener MVS Nagi Reddy said.
The blatant lies of the State are exposed at Tirupati during a meeting when a person claimed that he had mango crop and his loan was waived by the TDP government.
Another farmer said that he had 7 acres of land which yields sugarcane, mangoes and paddy and his loan of 1.5 lakh was waived.
“While TDP has deleted horticulture from loan waiver list the two persons telling at the meeting that their loans are waived shows the shallowness of the State and the cheap publicity tricks. There is unseen deception in the scale of finance and no farmer will be free from debt in the coming five years as the State said that the waiver will be staggered in nature,” Nagi Reddy said.
