The NPDCL is collecting Rs.30 per month for an agricultural power connection towards service charge while there is no power consumption charge, according to NPDCL officials. The farmers usually pay this annually.
Calling the Congress Party and the BJP as the biggest betrayers of the farmers, P Chengal Reddy said the farmers were betrayed by the policies of the Indian Government too
BRS working president said there was no necessity for that as farmers from the neighbouring State were already visiting Telangana in batches and cautioned the farming community
KT Rama Rao said farmers in Telangana were aware of the Congress party's incompetence and now their counterparts in Karnataka were experiencing the same
Several farmers held a protest on Thursday against the Maharashtra government's decision to set up a conservation centre for indigenous cows in Ambejogai in Beed instead of Latur
Protests erupted in various parts of Cauvery river basin districts of Karnataka after the Supreme Court refused to interfere with orders of the Cauvery Water Management Authority
Farmers protested with tractors on Thursday in Indore in Madhya Pradesh on the call of the opposition Congress against acquisition of what they claim is fertile agricultural land.
Karnataka Minister Shivanand Patil has said some farmers' leaders and associations are reporting deaths of peasants as suicide in order to claim more compensation.