Hyderabad: Calling the bluff of Chandrababu Naidu and his friendly media in distorting his US trip cushioning it with hyperboles, YSR Congress has said that it not the UN but the forum he addressed was organised by a Guntur-based NGO and has commercial interests laced to it.
Speaking to reporters here on Sunday, Party MLA Buggana Rajendranath said, ‘ Chandrababu Naidu spoke at the SIFFI (Sustainable India Finance Facility), an NGO with its office in Delhi and research facility at Gorantla in Guntur district and he did not address the UN Assembly, which was the fallacy and distorted version made out by his friendly media.
The exercise was held in tandem and planning with SIFFI which has published a story in New York Times about the success of Andhra Pradesh in Zero budget natural farming which needs funding of about Rs 16,500 crores and the same story has been repeated by Chandrababu Naidu in the sidelines of UN meeting which shows the commercial interest and fund raising programme.’
While Chandrababu Naidu has staked tall claims about the Organic farming projecting that the entire state would turn to it in very near future the official data published in Socio Economic Survey Report contradicts his statement. He has to introspect and answer as to how much budget was allocated and why even salaries were not paid to the Resource Persons appointed by the Government.
The entire exercise and publicity boils down to raising a huge loan of Rs 16, 500 crores ahead of the elections and to divert the funds and play the Nandyal model of electioneering in the state. Already the state has been pushed into a debt trap by raising huge sums of loans left and right and every citizen of the state has an average of over Rs 40, 000 per head loan.
Contrary to the claims of Chandrababu Naidu, the state farmers are in distress and are at the bottom on national level standing next to Jharkhand, Orissa and the like. He has put the state to shame with his tall claims and faulty language, he said.
‘We are against the state going for more loans in the name of Organic Farming to misuse it during elections as we are already neck deep in debt, be it through Amaravathi bonds, or aid from other sources,’ he said.
Organic Farming is viable only for small holdings and not for all types of soil and crops. The Natural Farming concept initiated by Japanese famer, philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka has no takers in his home town as feasibility is an important factor, he said.
