MANTHANI (PEDDAPALLI): Older people have been demanding jobs for their children and grand children while tenant farmers have been requesting for financial assistance under Rythu Bandhu Scheme.
They are in favour of the Congress party for these two aspects. These two-groups complained against the previous government for not giving jobs and Rs 4,000 financial assistance under Rythu Bandhu Scheme for tenant farmers.
Ragula Mallakka of Pochamma Colony in Manthani Town said that all she wants is a job for her grandson Ajay who has completed Intermediate and waiting for a job to run the family and added that they don’t mind even if it is a small job.
She said that she and her husband are getting Rs 1,000 as Asara pension every month.
She said that last time, they voted for TRS since it had promised jobs to every family in the election campaign but TRS had not given jobs to even the poor and Ragula opined that it could have given at least low cadre jobs to the poor families.
Tenant farmer Shetti Rajaiah of Manthani said that he had just one acre own land and has been cultivating 5 acres of land by taking it on lease but he was neither getting Rythu Bandu support nor Rythu Bima but the land owner was getting all the benefits. He asked what is the use of Rythu Bandhu Scheme when landlords are getting lakhs of rupees for their lands which they never cultivate and give on lease to tenant farmers and get lease amount.
He lamented that tenant farmers are at the receiving end and said that land owners are taking Rs 5,000 as lease amount per acre cotton field and Rs 10,000-Rs 12,000 for paddy field and tenant farmers could not get profit from the crop he cultivates after paying all these expenses. There are nearly 13 lakh tenant farmers and 70 per cent are tenant farmers among the 3,000 above farmers’ suicides that took place in Telangana state.
Many people have been complaining against the TRS Government for not fulfilling the promise of giving 2BHK and 3 acres land.
Many people are now looking for parties that can fulfil the promises they make in their election manifestos and work in the interests of unemployed youth, farmers, and for women empowerment and effective implementation of welfare schemes.
