KTR condemns illegal cases against farmers for protesting on urea shortage

BRS working president KT Rama Rao criticised Chief Minister Revanth Reddy for allegedly misusing police to intimidate farmers protesting urea shortages. He condemned police presence at a farmer’s house in Rajanna Sircilla, warning the Congress government against filing cases on farmers.

Hyderabad: BRS working president KT Rama Rao hit out at Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy for misusing police force to harass farmers who were protesting urea shortages. He condemned the deployment of police force on the residence of farmer Laxman Yadav from Yellareddypet mandal in Rajanna Sircilla district.

Laxman Yadav reportedly expressed anguish over urea shortage, by beating himself with his slippers for voting for the Congress in the 2023 Assembly polls. The video went viral on social media, with the government drawing flak for its inefficiency.

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Taking to X, Rama Rao said the government had responded with intimidation instead of redress. “Sending police to his house at midnight and terrorising his family is an example of the Chief Minister stooping to new lows,” he charged. He reminded that protest is a constitutional right and questioned how Revanth Reddy, who swore an oath on the same Constitution, could deny it to farmers.

The BRS leader asked Rahul Gandhi who flaunts the Constitution in his hands, to clarify why the Congress government in Telangana was harassing farmers who were merely staging protests for fertilisers. “The anger is not just Laxman’s, but of lakhs of farmers who are standing in queues for urea. If the Chief Minister thinks that he can silence them with cases, even all the prisons of Telangana will not be enough,” he said.

He demanded to know why farmers were facing urea shortage under the Congress rule, though Telangana did not face such crisis during the BRS regime earlier. He warned that if the government did not withdraw cases and stop harassment, BRS would join the farmers and stand guard for them.