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The incident occurred when a large number of farmers, activists of Left parties and Telangana Rashtra Rythu Sangham arrived at the district collectorate to stage a protest seeking an unconditional crop loan waiver
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While the Telangana Rashtra Rythu Sangham, affiliated to CPI, has called for protests in front of the Collector's office today, CPI (M) has decided to stage protests on Thursday.
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The Agriculture department, which developed a mobile app to help complete the loan waiver process, will train AEOs on how to use and collect the data from Tuesday.
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Out of 1,24,545 accounts, for which the waiver was pending due to Aadhar related issues, 41,322 accounts were updated so far. Aadhar related issues pertaining to rest of the accounts were in the process of rectification
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Several opined that it was not fair for Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy to cheat farmers
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The Telangana Rythu Sangam district wing staged a protest at the Sangareddy collectorate demanding the government to waive off the crop loans of all farmers unconditionally.
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Police Commissioner Kalmeshwar Shingenavar has denied permission to hold a 'rasta roko' programme proposed by farmers in order to maintain law and order in the district.
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KTR asks CM to visit the farmers who were up in arms against the government that failed to fulfill its commitment on the crop loan waiver and assuage their ruffled feelings by coming down to the villages instead
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BRS MLC N Naveen Kumar Reddy lodged a complaint against Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy with the Kodangal Police for failing to implement the crop loan waiver scheme and six guarantees assured to the people.
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Puja performed by senior BRS leader T Harish Rao sparked a counter-cleansing programme by the Congress leaders. The dispute has led to police complaints being filed against both sides, on the charges of violating temple rules and hurting religious sentiments.
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BRS demanded that the crop loan waiver benefit to be extended to all farmers up to Rs.2 lakh of their outstanding debt in banks as promised by the Congress during the Assembly polls
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KTR announced that the party would employ all forms of protests that were used during the Telangana Statehood movement to bring the State government to its knees and deliver the electoral promises made to the people
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Tension prevailed at Tirumalagiri under Tungaturthi constituency, when Congress workers hurled stones at BRS workers, who were staging protest over the State government’s failure in crop loan waiver.
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As part of the state-wide agitation, the BRS leaders including party MLAs, former MLAs, other public representatives, district presidents and workers participated in dharnas staged in constituency headquarters
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"Congress government should give clarity on the farm loan waiver. It cheated the farmers by not waiving off the loans fully," says Union Coal Minister G Kishan Reddy
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The former Minister would also participate in the State-wide protests being organised by the BRS at Alair to hold the State government responsible for its failures to implement the crop loan waiver
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Congress leader Mynampally Hanumanth Rao's demand for the resignation of Siddipet MLA T Harish Rao saying that the Congress had implemented a complete loan waiver as promised during the election campaign, drew flak from the BRS leaders.
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They alleged that a large number of farmers were excluded from the list of crop loan waiver beneficiaries list. They warned that if the government failed to provide crop loans waivers to all the farmers, they would intensify the agitation
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Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka first claimed to to have waived off farm loans with Rs.31,000 crore, later, he said the government had released Rs.18,000 crore for the crop loan waiver to the banks
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farmer Soma Srinivas, who sat on a fast-unto-death in protest against the denial of the farm loan waiver to his family on Tuesday, withdrew his strike following an assurance from agriculture officials in the evening.