Jagan follows Naidu, goes on hunger strike

Hyderabad: As former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu continued his indefinite fast at the hospital where he was shifted after being arrested by police early on Monday, former MP YS Jagan Mohan Reddy followed his lead.
Naidu, whose indefinite fast to demand a relief package for farmers entered the fourth day, refused to undergo treatment or take fluids at the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) though both doctors and the state government have appealed to him to call off his fast in view of his deteriorating condition.
Not withstanding TDP chief N Chandrababu Naidu's indefinite hunger strike even after his arrest, the Andhra Pradesh Government on Monday ruled out enhancing the compensation to damaged crops.

While the TDP chief and other opposition parties have been demanding payment of compensation at the rate of Rs 10,000 per acre to the damaged crops, the government is talking about the rise in input subsidy from Rs 4,500 to Rs 6,000 per hectare.
"We have enhanced input subsidy and got the Food Corporation of India to relax norms for procurement of discoloured paddy. We have opened 375 centres for procurement of paddy through Civil Supplies Department," chief minister Nallari Kiran Kumar Reddy said in a statement.
The farmers' associations affiliated to the TDP and the Left parties too denounced the relief measures announced by the government and said they were grossly inadequate.