Ready to go jail for the public, farmers, says KTR

Speaking at the 'Rythannala Poru Bata' meeting with farmers at Ramleela ground on Thursday, Rama Rao declared his willingness to go to jail for the sake of the people and farmers. He warned that the public would soon rise up against the government and confront Congress leaders for not fulfilling their election promises.

Adilabad: Declaring that the BRS would not bow to pressure tactics from the Congress government, working president KT Rama Rao on Thursday said he was ready to be jailed for the sake of the people and farmers.

Addressing a massive gathering of farmers at the ‘Rythannala Poru Bata’ meeting organised by the BRS and local farmers’ organisations at the Ramleela ground here on Thursday to protest against the anti-farmer policies of the Congress government, Rama Rao said he was ready to go to jail for the people and farmers. With one promise after the other made to the people being broken, there would be a people’s revolt against the government, with the people not hesitating to thrash leaders of the Congress soon for failing to fulfill their poll promises. Listing out each of the broken promises of the Congress, right from Rs.2,500 for women, Rs.4,000 for unemployed youth, 2 lakh jobs, bonus on paddy and so on, he pointed out that even the one tola of gold to promised to the beneficiaries of the Kalyana Lakshmi scheme was not given yet.
Rama Rao, who reached the venue to a vociferous applause from the farmers and the public who gathered there welcoming him, said the situation was such that farmers would have to lodge a complaint against the government for evading payment of Rythu Bandhu, not initiating the promised Rythu Bharosa scheme and for not extending the crop loan waiver in a full-fledged manner. Even the unemployed would have to lodge a complaint against the government for not providing 2 lakh jobs per annum. No leader of the Congress would be left in the State if all sections lodged complaints against the government, he said.

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Almost every section of society was now on the streets protesting, with the latest being the wives of police personnel too demanding justice at work for their husbands. Even they were being treated with disrespect with the police using force against women staging peaceful dharnas, he said.
Cautioning that the BRS would not remain silent if cases were booked against farmers, he said none would keep quiet if the government demolished the houses of the common man either. He cited a case registered against Bodigam Ganganna for allegedly abusing Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy. People were given house sites and permissions during the earlier regime of the Congress, but now the same party was targetting the people for no fault of theirs. He also asked whether cases would be booked against the Congress which claimed to keep its words within hundred days at the office or against the farmers or the poor. Cheating cases should be registered against those who duped the farmers and the public, he said, adding that illegal cases would not be tolerated.
Rama Rao also asked the public to warn people in Maharashtra about the Congress, since the State was going for polls soon, and inform them what was happening in Telangana, especially with regard to poll promises. Tell the people of Maharashtra that if they vote for the Congress, they too will be cheated, he said.
MLAs Anil Jadhav, Kova Lakshmi and Padi Kaushik Reddy, former MLAs Balka Suman, Jogu Ramanna and D Chinnaiah among others were present.