Thousands of acres of paddy in Narsapur constituency have dried up, and BRS leader Harish Rao is blaming the Congress government’s power cuts for the losses. The former minister toured the withered fields in Chilipched and Hatnoor mandals of Medak district on Friday, November 6, 2026, and sat down with farmers who say they are already drowning in debt.

The visit was organised under Narsapur MLA Sunita Lakshma Reddy, who accompanied Rao through the two mandals. According to the party’s account, the tour took in dried paddy plots and a series of conversations with the farmers who lost their crops.

Fields gone brown, farmers say they are being ignored

The core charge is simple. Rao says electricity cuts under the Congress government have left paddy fields across thousands of acres parched. Farmers, he says, are sinking into debt while nobody from the ruling party bothers to visit them.

That anger came through in the farmers’ own words, as relayed by BRS. Several of them told Rao that not a single Congress leader had come near their fields to see the damage. They said the government was not paying attention to their losses at all.

For farmers who depend on a single season, a failed paddy crop is not an abstract political fight. It is a loan that cannot be repaid and a harvest that will never come in. The report makes clear that the people standing in those dried fields feel abandoned.

Rythu Bandhu and the one-acre complaint

The sharpest allegation involves Rythu Bandhu, the state’s input support scheme. Farmers told Rao they had not received the full support they were owed. They claimed the money had been deposited for only one acre, and that the Revanth Reddy government had washed its hands of the rest.

Rao echoed the charge, accusing the government of leaving farmers short while claiming it had delivered. He has demanded the release of the pending Rythu Bandhu funds, arguing that farmers cannot be expected to replant or recover without that money.

The BRS statement does not include a detailed government breakdown of how payments were calculated, so the one-acre claim stands as the farmers’ account and the party’s assertion. What is clear is the depth of distrust it has produced in these villages.

A loan waiver that farmers say never arrived

The second grievance hits even harder. Farmers told Rao that the loan waiver announced by Chief Minister Revanth Reddy was, in their words, bogus. In their village, they said, at least one out of every ten farmers had not received the waiver.

That detail matters because the loan waiver was supposed to be the relief that kept these families afloat. When a promised waiver does not reach most of a village, the failed crop turns into a double blow, with the debt still sitting on the books and no cushion to absorb it.

The farmers also said they had trusted Congress promises and been let down. Their hope, as BRS relayed it, now rests on a return to power by the BRS and KCR’s government, which they believe would finally end their hardship.

“We will not let the Congress government off the hook until every dried acre gets compensation, pending Rythu Bandhu funds are released and every farmer gets a full loan waiver.”

That was the message Rao delivered in the aftermath of the visit, as the party publicised his remarks. It is a blunt demand, and it leaves no room for a slow, quiet process. He is putting three specific asks on the table: compensation for every dried acre, the Rythu Bandhu balance, and a full loan waiver.

What Rao is promising farmers

Rao told the farmers not to lose heart. He said that in the next two years he would fight to bend Chief Minister Revanth Reddy’s neck and push for the farmers’ problems to be solved. The promise is long-term, and it is political, aimed squarely at the next election cycle.

The gap between the fields and the statehouse is wide. Farmers in Narsapur are describing crop losses, unpaid support and unfinished loan relief. The report does not record a response from the state government to these specific allegations about power cuts, Rythu Bandhu payments or the loan waiver.

For now, the facts on the ground are plain. Paddy has dried across a large area in Narsapur constituency. Farmers say they are in debt. The BRS says the blame lies with electricity cuts and a government that has not paid up. Those claims are the political heart of the story, and they will be tested by whatever the government says next.

Why Telangana farmers should be watching this

The Narsapur case is a Telangana story from start to finish, rooted in Medak district and the state’s own farm support schemes. The dispute over Rythu Bandhu and loan waivers affects farmers across the state who rely on these programmes, not just those in one constituency.

If the power supply, the pending payments and the waiver disputes are not resolved, the same kind of crop failure and debt cycle could repeat wherever farmers are waiting on the same money. That is the reason this visit matters beyond one mandal.