New Delhi, Jan 10 (ANI): YSR Congress chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy is undertaking a two-day 'Rythu Deeksha' at Armoor in Hyderabad's Nizamabad District from today to bring to the government's notice the plight of the farming community in the state.
"With a view to alleviate the lot of the hapless farmers, I am undertaking a two-day Rythu Deeksha at Armoor in Nizamabad district from Tuesday. The aim of this initiative is to bring to the Government's notice the plight of the farming community in the state what with soaring input costs and sliding profits. I call for all round support for this Deeksha and I appeal to everyone not to stall this noble endeavor by resorting to obstructionist and politically motivated smear campaign," said a press statement on behalf of Jagan Mohan Reddy.
"The farm sector, as we all know, is on the throes of a deep crisis. While the input costs have trebled, the incomes have plummeted to a third of earlier profits. Unkind weather gods and unconcerned rulers have made agriculture so utterly non-remunerative that the despondent farmer is seeing suicide a better option. For the first ever in thousands of years of farming history, the farmers of the state had a self-imposed crop holiday to stave off further losses," the statement adds.
Asserting that the YSR Congress Party believes that well being of the farm sector alone can ensure all-round development, Reddy said: " We have been fighting to ensure higher remunerative prices, increased input subsidies, better access to fertilizers, uninterrupted power supply to the farm sector and quick release of crop loss compensation by organising a slew of agitation programs such as the Lakshya Deeksha in Vijayawada, Jala Deeksha in New Delhi, Ravulapalem to Polavaram Harita Yatra, Rythu Deeksha in Guntur, Saagu Poru in Chittoor, Maha Dharna in Vijayawada and laying a besieging collectorates across the state."
" The Armoor initiative, therefore, is a natural continuation of these untiring pro-farmer efforts and it represents our unstinted support to the farm sector. We have undertaken this Deeksha not with an eye on the impending bypolls as we had already gone on record announcing our decision not to put up candidates against those who have resigned for the Telangana cause. This was our conscious decision in deference to the strong sentiment in this region. Similarly, the general elections are two-and-a-half years away. It is therefore crystal clear that we are not eyeing electoral gains by resorting to this Deeksha," he added.
Jagan Mohan Reddy further said that his party strongly believes that the farmers have no caste, region or religion and their exploitation too cuts across regional barriers.
"The government too has admitted that 876 of the total of 1076 mandals in the state are drought-hit. The state has no minister for agriculture, nor is there a Vice-Chancellor for the sole agricultural university in the state. No one knows the fate of the Agricultural Technology Mission. Such is the plight of the farm sector in this state," he added. (ANI)
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