Even as Telugu Desam Party president and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday patted his own back for the “excellent relief and rescue operations” during the Cyclone Montha in the state, his predecessor and YSR Congress party President Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy lashed out at him for neglecting the farming community during the cyclone devastation.

In a video conference with party’s regional coordinators and other functionaries from the YSRCP central office at Tadepalli, Jagan said farmers have been left without any assurance and said the current crisis during the cyclone a man-made calamity created by chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu.

Jagan recalled that during the YSRCP government, free crop insurance was implemented systematically, covering 85 lakh farmers and 70

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