Jagan’s policies led to 1,029 farmer suicides in Andhra Pradesh: Naidu

AMARAVATI: TDP chief and former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu has expressed concern over the deteriorating conditions of farmers in the state on account of total indifference of the YCP government in the past 20 months. Naidu said that it was only because of the anti-farmer policies of the Jaganmohan Reddy regime that over 1,029 farmers committed suicide. AP has come to stand in the third place in the country in farmers’ suicides. In the tenant farmers’ suicides, the state was standing in second place.

Addressing the meeting of party leaders in Machilipatnam Lok Sabha constituency, the TDP chief said that the suicides of farmers and farm workers went up by 55%. This was as per the records of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). It showed that the farmers in AP were desperate and depressed because of the insensible Jagan Reddy regime. The farmers were being targeted in the overall fraudulent activities of the ruling party.

Naidu said that the YCP land grabbers and gangs were setting their sights on the lands of the farmers. When the YCP leaders were talking about the safety of farmers lands under the “Bhuhakku-Bhuraksha”, it was like the devil quoting the scriptures. Where was the need for using costly granite stones for survey stones which would be sunk into the ground for up to half their size.

“Moreover, a Tughlaq decision was taken to sculpt Jagan Reddy photos on the survey stones. This was why the AP CM was being called Tughlaq 2.0.” Naidu called upon the party cadres to intensify the agitation for the sake of the farmers and agricultural workers.

Naidu said that the people themselves were calling the YCP regime as a “diabolical rule” that was perpetrating a “jungle raj” on the people of the state. The TDP should hit back at the ruling party by creating awareness among the people about its atrocities and illegalities. The Opposition cadres should be ever prepared and ready to counter the enemy whenever the elections are held, he said.