Hyderabad, June 30 -- BRS Working President KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Tuesday strongly criticised Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, accusing him of withholding nearly Rs 30,000 crore under the Rythu Bharosa scheme and said that the state would forever remember him as a "Betrayer of Farmers".

According to an official statement released by the BRS party, KTR claimed agriculture flourished during the previous ten years under the leadership of K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) and that KCR had credited nearly Rs 73,000 crore directly into farmers' bank accounts through 11 timely instalments of Rythu Bandhu, laying the foundation for an agricultural transformation in Telangana.

"Whereas, the current Chief Minister's so-called "Ashirvada Sabhas" are...