Revanth’s drought order has 365 mandals and no payment ledger

K. T. Rama Rao has demanded ₹60,000 per acre from the Congress government in Telangana, alleging that three farmer-support instalments were withheld and that the current Yasangi payment is also due. At a Rythu Garjana meeting in Adilabad, he called it “a drought created by Congress”. That is KTR’s allegation, reported from the meeting—not an established payment figure. [1]

The government’s record is substantial but carefully aggregate. Its June 2026 release says ₹2,482.02 crore was released to 41.37 lakh farmers in the first phase, with a commitment to disburse ₹9,000 crore in nine days. A July release says ₹9,000 crore had been credited to 73.30 lakh farmers within that period, including a final phase of ₹1,009.15 crore for 1.44 lakh farmers. The official scheme page describes Rythu Bharosa as ₹12,000 per acre annually, paid in two ₹6,000 seasonal instalments. [2][3][4]

What the releases do not provide is the useful part: a farmer-by-farmer ledger, the number of eligible farmers still unpaid, or a clear answer on the Yasangi 2026 instalment. Nor do they explain KTR’s ₹60,000 calculation, which appears to use the promised ₹15,000 annual rate rather than the currently described ₹12,000 scheme. The document that would settle the argument is still absent.

The state has separately declared 365 mandals drought-affected for Vanakalam 2026—111 severely and 254 moderately affected—after rainfall was reported at 17% below normal. That establishes crop stress, not arrears. The Congress government in Telangana has yet to answer the specific allegation that three instalments were withheld. It has announced the totals; it has not published the receipt book. [5][6]

This is administrative evasion dressed up as delivery: announce the aggregate, leave the exclusions invisible, and let everybody argue over the headline. Farmers need the ledger, not another ceremony.