For the first time, YSR Congress directly blamed the TRS Government in Telangana for the increasing number of suicides and its u-turn in keeping up the promise of loan waiver. YSR Congress said that for the past 15 months the KCR government has failed totally in coming to the rescue of the farmers.

‘TRS has included in the manifesto that it would waive loans up to Rs 1 lakh on coming to power, but has failed in keeping up the promise and has put the scheme on a staggered basis,’ YSRC Telangana president P Srinivas Reddy said. Reddy, however, took care not to utter name of chief minister KCR in his reaction. The party has never been harsh towards Telangana government and TRS party and it has been reciprocated. There have never been attempts to stall the visits of either YS Vijayalakshmi or Sharmila. YSR Congress supported TRS in Council elections. TDP used this not-so-open cooperation to attack TRS and YSRC alleging they were colluded. As if to prove this point, Jagan was more strident in his demand that Naidu be made A1 in cash-for-vote scam than the TRS.

In this backdrop came the harsh reaction against TRS government from Lotus Pond. Probably, the growing resentment from the opposition might have forced the YSRCP also to take a clear stand. The Jagan’s party lamented that while the number of suicides was on the rise, n exgratia had been paid so far.

‘We appeal to the farmers not to commit suicides as it is not the answer to the problems but should fight it out and assure that we will take up the issue with the right earnest,’ he said.

The loan waiver in piece-meal system would be of no use to the farmers, he added.

‘The farmers have poured their woes during the Paramarsa Yatra of Sharmila in Warangal district and wanted the YSR type of governance back as it was farmer-friendly,’ he said.