Hyderabad, May 3 -- Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Sunday, May 3, wrote to Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, accusing state Agriculture Minister Tummula Nageshwara Rao of misleading farmers and deflecting attention from the Congress government's unfulfilled election promises.

In the letter, Bandi Sanjay said that while Congress had promised a complete loan waiver for farmers who had borrowed up to Rs 2 lakh, the state government's own figures showed only 25 lakh of an estimated 45 lakh eligible farmers had received relief, leaving nearly 20 lakh farmers without the promised benefit.

Taking aim at Tummula Rao's claim that minimum support price (MSP) legislation was within the state's purview, the B...