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Former BRS minister T Harish Rao has criticized CM Revanth Reddy for reportedly taking steps to cut the monetary benefit under its Rythu Bharosa scheme.Speaking to mediapersons at Sangareddy, he said Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, who had demanded Rythu Bandhu for three crops when he was in the Opposition, was now skipped  the benefit for the Rabi season and was planning to cut it for the rainy season. “Revanth Reddy, who has already cheated on the farm loan waiver scheme, was preparing for another fraud by making cuts in the Rythu Bharosa scheme,” Harish Rao alleged. He said the farmers were being asked to make applications with self-declarations for the sake of the Rythu Bharosa scheme and insulting the farmers in the name of conditions and declarations.

“Why are you so tired of the farmers? Should the farmers turn around offices again and around Congress leaders? During KCR's tenure, the money was deposited in the accounts of the farmers without any twists and turns,” he claimed. He said as per the election promises made by the Congress, Rs .15,000 per acre should be given to the farmers. “Revanth Reddy is giving news leaks by stating that only the farmers, who cultivate crops, will get the benefit under the Rythu Bharosa scheme. 

He is saying that he will give it only once to the farmers of commercial crops and fruit orchards like cotton. This will harm those farmers. They also have a lot of investment and they are cultivated by those who do not have much irrigation facility,” he said. He said long-term crops and rain-fed crops were mostly done by SC and ST farmers and if injustice is done to them in Rythu Bharosa, the farmers would revolt against the State government.