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Unrest among farmers is continuing in the State, with Thursday witnessing a crude attempt by the Congress government to quell their voices before they took their protest to the State capital.
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The demonstrators, led by former MLA K Prabhakar Reddy, voiced their opposition to the forcible acquisition of their agricultural lands without fair compensation.
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The former Minister highlighted that despite the Congress party’s lavish promises, none had been implemented, prompting farmers from all over the State to seek the attention and support of the BRS chief
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Farmers continued to hit the streets in several areas in the State raising basic issues, including water for their crops.
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The former Minister emphasized that the Chief Minister’s statements had not matched the actual disbursement figures, leading to trust deficit and lack of transparency
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The incompetent Congress government was playing havoc with the farmers. Hardships the farmers were being subjected to would not augur well for the State, said KTR
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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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On Thursday, BRS activists, led by Choppadandi party in-charge and former MLA Sunke Ravishankar, staged a protest demonstration in Choppadandi as part of a state-wide agitation. The police detained several protesting BRS leaders, including Ravishankar and former district libraries chairman Enugu Ravinder Reddy, but they were later released on personal bonds.
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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 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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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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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.
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Adilabad DSP Jeevan Reddy said that a case was registered against eleven farmers for insulting Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy and taking out the procession or Shav Yatra at the village on August 17
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Extending support to the protesting farmers All India Pragathisheela Rythu Sangham (AIPKS) called for protests at all the district collectorates in the State on August 28 demanding unconditional crop loan waiver
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Raised slogans against the Congress government and demand it to waive their loans at the earliest
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A decision was taken to stage ‘rasta roko’ protest on national highways on Saturday. This apart, they demanded that the State government should waive their crop loans without imposing any terms and conditions.
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He demanded that the Congress government in the State fulfill its electoral promise, failing which the BRS, accompanied by farmers of the State, would launch a fight against it
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Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, Maheshwar Reddy said while 60 lakh farmers were eligible, only 22 lakh farmers were covered under the loan waiver scheme
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The farmer stated that he had availed a loan of Rs 2.90 lakh from a bank to grow various crops in 2023. Locals, mostly non-tribals, said that 80 farmers did not get the waiver
