"If government doesn't provide immediate relief to every affected farmer, we've decided to launch a protest," he said while addressing people in Gudur. Kalyan demanded relief of ₹35,000 per acre and immediate relief of ₹10,000 in the next two days otherwise his party will stage a state-wide hunger strike on December 7. He said complete enumeration of the crop losses would be completed by December 15 and input subsidy distributed to affected farmers by December 31. He said the state government distributed ₹306.9 crore as input subsidy to 4.20 lakh farmers who suffered crop damages due to natural calamities since May 2019. Similarly, 1.16 lakh horticulture farmers were paid ₹102.24 crore as input subsidy.

Source: Mint December 05, 2020 16:38 UTC