Election 2024 Turmoil: Telangana’s Rythu Bharosa Payments Put on Hold
As the nation gears up for the highly expected election 2024, a political storm has emitted in the state of telangana over the timing of the payment of funds under the rythu bharosa scheme, a lead welfare program for farmers. The election commission of india(ECI) has taken a strict position, withdrawing its prior authorization for the telangana government to disburse the rabi session installament of the rythu bharosa scheme during the progressing election 2024 season.
The rythu bharosa scheme, introduced by the ruling bharat rashtra samithi(BRS) government in 2018, gives financial help of ₹10,000 per acre per year to farmers for the buy of cultivate inputs. The plot has been a foundation of the BRS governemnt’s endeavors to back the agriculture community in telangana. However, the timing of the payment of these reserves has become a contentious issue, with the resistance congress party charging that the BRS government is endeavoring to “unfairly impact voters” through the plot.
In a critical move, the ECI had initially granted permission to the telangana government to disburse the rabi session installment of the rythu bharosa scheme amid the election 2024 season, subject to certain conditions. These conditiond included a boycott on the government publicizing the payment and a prohibition on any hike in the sum of financial help being promised amid the campaign. However, the ECI has now withdrawn this consent, citing a violation of the show code of conduct by telangana finance serve T.Harish Rao, who had freely declared the approaching dispensing of reserves. The commission has observed that T Harish Rao, Minister of Finance and Heath and Family Welfare, Govt of Telangana has not as it were violated the provisions of MCC (model code of conduct) but moreover conditions laid down as over by publicizing the discharge under the plot, and in this manner disturbed the level playing field in the ongoing decision handle,” the ECI letter to the state chief constituent officer read.
The ECI’s decision has sparked a political slugfest between the BRS and the Congress party, with both sides charging each other of attempting to control the election process. The BRS has urged the ECI to reconsider its decision, arguing that the Rythu Bharosa conspire is an ongoing program and that the payment of funds should not be halted amid the decision season. 3On the other hand, the Congress party has invited the ECI’s intervention, with party leaders affirming that the BRS government was using the conspire to “unfairly influence voters.” “The Congress is promising to provide Rs 15,000 per section of land. We are as of now giving Rs 10,000 per acre and will increment it to Rs 16,000 per acre if we come to control. The dispensing will be made on Monday (November 27). Indeed before farmers have tea and breakfast, the amount will be in their account,” Telangana Finance Minister Harish Rao had said in a open meeting, activating the ECI’s action.
