Hyderabad, July 1 -- Siddipet Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) MLA T Harish Rao has accused the Congress government in Telangana of betraying farmers by failing to implement its promised crop insurance scheme.

He criticised Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy for giving more importance to "political optics and pageantry" than to the real concerns of the agricultural sector.

"Despite repeatedly assuring the farmers of a robust crop insurance policy, the Congress government has failed to deliver for four consecutive seasons. Revanth Reddy had promised a strong crop insurance scheme based on the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana," he said.

Harish Rao pointed out that the scheme was mentioned in the Warangal Farmers' Declaration, the Congress manife...