HYDERABAD
Minister for Agriculture Tummala Nageswara Rao requested Union Ministers G. Kishan Reddy and Bandi Sanjay to take the initiative to ensure the supply of urea assured from the RFCL Ramagundam unit, as the State did not receive 63,000 tonnes of the fertilizer from it.
At a meeting, he said here on Friday that the Centre had promised to supply 50,000 tonnes this month but had allotted only 28,600 tonnes. Of it, only 13,000 tonnes were supplied to States till August. 21. He instructed the authorities to supply the stock to the districts where demand-supply gap was too high.
Meanwhile, working president of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K.T. Rama Rao blamed the inefficiency of the Congress government in the State and BJP government at the Centre for severe shortage of urea in Telangana.
In a statement, Mr. Rama Rao said on Friday that the downfall of the Congress rule that had pushed farmers to their limits had begun as the farming community was forced to stand in serpentine queues for long hours for getting supply of one urea bag. “The people of Telangana have now understood what true leadership and effective governance, which were hallmark of the K. Chandrasekhar Rao government, entail”, he said.
Stating that the farmers’ plight was a result of petty politics and the rule of incompetent leaders who had no understanding of governance, Mr. Rama Rao said the clear difference between Delhi-based party leaders, who only talk but would not act, and KCR had become clear to four-crore people of Telangana.
He explained that a robust planning and extensive groundwork was undertaken by former Chief Minister KCR to ensure timely urea supply. He recalled how KCR would hold a series of meetings with agriculture officials and submit detailed requests to the Centre well before each season and send State officials to ports in Andhra Pradesh to monitor the supply.
Published – August 22, 2025 10:19 pm IST
