YSRCP flays TDP anti-farmer policies

Hyderabad, Jan 22: Asserting that the TDP Government is playing foul with farmers on the loan waiver issue, YSR Congress has demanded the State to ensure that bankers will refrain from adjusting the loan amount to the payments made to the farmers for their produce. "With the State insisting that all payments should be made only through cheques for the agriculture yield, farmers are at a loss for being defaulters with Chandrababu Naidu not honouring the loan waiver scheme and bankers not releasing the amount," party spokesperson K Parthasarathi told reporters here on Thursday. Scale of finance should always be prospective and not in retrospective effect and the TDP government is trying to deceive the farmers by scaling the down the amount to Rs 18,000 from Rs 24,000 without allowing the bankers to fix the amount on local conditions, he said. This was reduced only to slash the number of eligible farmers for the loan waiver by 25 %, he said.