CM visits Kodangal, avoids meeting protesting farmers, villagers against pharma village

A programme was scheduled at Rotibanda thanda under Dudyala mandal in Kodangal constituency by the district administration to seek villagers’ opinion on the establishment of pharma village

Kodangal: A day after farmers and villagers vehemently opposed the establishment of pharma village, with a woman being injured in the ensuing lathi charge, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy visited Kodangal on Saturday. However, he did not meet the protesting farmers and villagers.

Tension prevailed in Kodangal, Revanth Reddy’s constituency on Friday with farmers and villagers opposing land acquisition for the proposed pharma village.

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A few residents, including a woman were injured after police resorted to lathi charge to bring the situation under control.

A programme was scheduled at Rotibanda thanda under Dudyala mandal in Kodangal constituency by the district administration to seek villagers’ opinion on the establishment of pharma village.

However, even before the programme could commence, villagers vociferously raised slogans against the Congress government and resolved that they would not part with their lands for the pharma village.

On Saturday, the Chief Minister visited Maddur and Regadimylaram in the constituency to console the family members of Congress leaders who were bereaved recently.

At Maddur, he spoke to Shivraj, whose son Naveen died recently. From Maddur, he visited to Regadimylaram in Bomraspeta to console the family members of senior leader Narsi Reddy, who passed away recently.

The Chief Minister’s Kodangal visit, which commenced at 11.30 a.m., ended in a couple of hours and he returned to Hyderabad around 2 p.m. Despite visiting Kodangal, the Chief Minister did not speak to villagers of Rotibanda, which was close to Regadimylaram.

Vast fertile agricultural lands in the villages of Hakimpet, Polepalli, and Lakacharla in Dudyala mandal are at the risk of being taken away from the farmers for the proposed pharma village project.

Opposing the establishment of a pharma village, the farmers have been staging protests against the government for the last few months.

On August 28, tension prevailed during the protest in front of the Dudyala MRO office after a woman farmer from Polepally village, Turpu Rajamma, holding a bottle of pesticide, threatened to take her life if her land was taken away. “I will die, but I will not give up my land,” she had warned.