Centre Gave Farmers Rs 9000 Crores: Fadnavis

HYDERABAD: Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been changing the face of India and Telangana should be made part of that mission. The Centre had purchased paddy and cotton worth Rs 1.6 lakh crore and gave Rs 9,000 crore to the farmers under PM Kisan Samman Yojana, Rs 6,000 crore for the Ramagundam Fertiliser Factory, Rs 23,000 crore for Jal Jeevan Mission and Rs 1.09 lakh crore for development of roads.

“There is a need to bring in a change in Telangana and let the BJP come to power for fast development,” Fadnavis said, addressing a public meeting in Palakurthi on Tuesday.

He said that the Maharashtra government took a historic decision to release Godavari waters to Telangana despite the huge submergence of land in that state to facilitate the Kaleshwaram project, but Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao had caused immense damage to it with his corruption and the structure may collapse any time.

 “I heeded the request of Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao when he met me in 2015 and sought my nod for the Kaleshwaram project. I took the decision as a neighbouring state. The TRS changed its name to the BRS but it should instead be named FRS (Family Rashtra Samithi) as the government works to benefit only one family. There is a need to bring change in Telangana and allow the BJP to come to power for fast development.”

 “The development that should have taken place has not happened here. If the BJP is brought to power, a BC community candidate will be made the CM. We will remove the four per cent reservation for Muslims and reduce VAT on petrol and diesel,” he said, urging people to vote for BJP for double engine growth.