The Andhra Pradesh Tenant Farmers’ Association has accused the NDA government in the State of betraying the tenant farmers by failing to implement the Annadata Sukhibhava-PM Kisan scheme as promised during the elections.
In a statement on Thursday, association State president A. Katamayyah and general secretary P. Jamalayya demanded that the government extend financial assistance of ₹20,000 per tenant farmer family under the scheme.
The leaders criticised the government for neglecting the scheme during its first year in office, stating that farmers had been misled and denied the support.
They said that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu had said that while the first instalment of the scheme amount would be given to land-owning farmers in August 2025, tenant farmers would receive the second instalment subsequently.
However, during the second phase of disbursement on Wednesday, funds were deposited only into the accounts of land-owning farmers, and tenant farmers were once again left out, they alleged.
“This exclusion reflects the government’s lack of sincerity towards tenant farmers,” they said, and described it as discriminatory and unjust.
Demanding immediate corrective action, they urged the government to include all landless tenant farmers under the Annadata Sukhibhava scheme and provide them the promised financial support.
Published – November 20, 2025 06:02 pm IST
