For the last couple of weeks, it has been a high voltage political drama in the state over the heavy crop loss caused due the unexpected and untimely heavy rains that lashed coastal Andhra Pradesh and parts of Telangana and Rayalaseema in the first week of December. The near total damage to food and commercial crops just at the time of harvesting led to a spate of suicides by farmers.
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The plight of farmers has become a major political issue, that is being fully exploited by the Opposition parties.
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