Gram sabhas reflecting growing discontent against Congress government in Telangana: BRS

Farmers and general public feel betrayed by the ruling party, says Jagadish Reddy

Nalgonda: Launching a blistering attack on the Congress leadership for its failure to deliver at least a fraction of what it had promised to the people to come to power, BRS leader and former minister G Jagadish Reddy said that the mood of the public was a pointer to the growing discontent across all sections in the state.

Addressing a news conference along with a host of leaders of the party at the BRS office here, he said people were out to express their disillusionment with the government in the form of protests at every grama sabha. Farmers and the general public felt betrayed by the Congress and hence they were coming forward to fight.

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Responding to calls of desperation, BRS working president KT Rama Rao had shouldered the task of spearheading the protests of the farmers who were deprived of Rythu Bandhu assistance and multiple benefits extended to them during the BRS regime. Power supply to the agriculture services was no longer the same. Fertilizers were once again in short supply, he said. The government was out to stifle the voice of the opposition parties and hence their meetings intended to reach out to the people at the grass roots were being disallowed.

Alleging that both Congress and the BJP were looting the people, he announced that the BRS protest programme at Clock Tower in Nalgonda, scheduled for January 28 (from 11 am to 2 pm) received the approval of the court. The protest programme would be attended by KT Rama Rao along with other leaders of the party. He appealed to people to make it a success.

Stating that the Nalgonda Minister had deprived the farmers in the district of over Rs 1000 crores, he said the commissions he had taken from millers resulted in such a huge loss. He urged the district’s people to take note of the Minister’s corruption and called for teaching him a lesson. Reddy also challenged Thummala Nageswara Rao to disclose the total quantity of paddy purchased and the bonuses paid as Minister for Agriculture.