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CPI stages protest against delay in waiver of farm loans
CPI activists, led by the party State secretary K Ramakrishna, staged a sit-in at the sub-collector\'s office here on Wednesday to highlight the failure on the part of the State government in delivering its promise to write off farm and Dwcra loans.
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Vijayawada: CPI activists, led by the party State secretary K Ramakrishna, staged a sit-in at the sub-collector's office here on Wednesday to highlight the failure on the part of the State government in delivering its promise to write off farm and Dwcra loans. Addressing the party activists at the venue of agitation, Ramakrishna alleged that the Telugu Desam Party government had totally failed to fulfil its poll promise of waiving loans of farmers and Dwcra women even five months after coming to power.
About 25 lakh small and marginal farmers in the State would be deprived of the loan waiver benefit as the government proposed to link the scheme to Aadhaar enrolment. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu was up to his old tricks to take the farmers for a ride. The allocation of a meagre Rs 5,000 crore to the newly-set up Farmer Empowerment Corporation at Gannavaram would not serve any purpose, he said.
CPI Krishna district secretary Akkineni Vanaja said the TDP government had failed to rehabilitate the poor hit by the Hudhud cyclone in north coastal Andhra despite all its tall claims. The rural poor were facing untold hardships in the cyclone-hit villages due to the tardy implementation of the relief measures by the government, she said.
Mild tension prevailed at the place when the CPI activists tried to barge into the sub-collector's office. The police arrested some of the party activists to prevent them from forcibly entering the sub-collector's office premises.
Former CPI MLA Nasar Vali, city working committee member Navaneetham Sambasiva Rao, city secretary Donepudi Shankar, general secretary G Koteswara Rao, Andhra Pradesh Mahila Samakhya State secretary P Durga Bhavani, All India Trade Union Congress (AITUC) city secretary Palla Surya Rao and other leaders took part in the dharna.
