Sharmila seeks people’s blessings
Sharmila, who is doing Padayatra on behalf of YSR Congress Party chief Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, sought the blessings of people to ensure that they will have the Rajanna Rajyam in the near future.
Continuing her Maro Praja Prasthanam Padayatra on the 16th day on Friday in Anantapuram district, Sharmila listened to the plethora of problems of farmers, agricultural laborers and women despite the rain and chilly weather.
She told them that Jagan needed their blessings to form the Rajanna Rajyam in which they would find quick solutions to their problems.
Sharmila was reacting to the series of complaints and untold stories of sufferings at impromptu meetings and road-side sittings during the course of her Padayatra at villages in the Uravakona constituency.“Things will be set right if Rajanna Rajyam is established and for this purpose, my brother needed your blessings,” she told them.
People, mostly ground nut farmers complained they are not getting the subsidy seeds for their fields. “We used to get at least 50 per cent subsidy on seeds during the YSR regime but now there is neither power supply nor subsidy seeds. We are also not getting proper water supply, we don’t know where to go and complaint,” farmers narrated their suffering.
When Sharmila inquired about the crop insurance, ground nut farmers told her they used to get crop insurance to the tune of Rs.12,000 out of an investment of Rs.25,000 per acre at times of crop losses during the YSR regime but they have not been getting any insurance in the last two years.
When she sought the details of the interest free loan scheme, women told her the scheme is for name sake and they are repaying with Rs.3 interest. They complained several names are being deleted from the lists of pensioners and there is not much daily work also for agricultural laborers.
As of Friday evening on the 16th day, Sharmila completed a distance of 213.60 km of Maro Praja Prasthanam as she continued to walk through sporadic rain and muddy roads.
(Updated on Nov 3, 2012)