Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minister K Kannababu accused the former Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu of not fulfilling his promises made to the people.
"He did not fulfil his promise of loan waiver to farmers. He failed to pay the fourth and fifth instalments of loan waiver and now he is demanding the present government to make those payments," he said here.
"At the time Chandrababu Naidu had promised, the loans to be waived off were Rs 84,000 crores. Naidu said he would clear Rs 24,000 crores but by the end, he paid only Rs 15,600 crores. The Chandrababu Naidu government had claimed just before the elections that they made payments to the tune of Rs 3900 crores; to garner the votes of farmers. But in reality, farmers could get the benefit of only Rs 386 crores," the Agriculture Minister claimed.
Alleging that the former government led by Chandrababu Naidu even diverted the loans taken from civil supplies department at the time of elections, Kannababu said, "Naidu did not release input subsidy to the tune of Rs 2000 crores. But now the same Chandrababu is preaching about farmers. Chandrababu cheated the farmers in the name of "Annadata Sukhibhava" scheme to get votes."