TDP fires neglect salvo at government

Party leaders lay siege to the office of the Agriculture Commissioner demanding immediate action to resolve farmers’ issues

Hyderabad: Telugu Desam Party (TDP) Telangana unit working president A Revanth Reddy accused the State government of totally neglecting the toiling farmers by denying them minimum support price (MSP).Speaking to media persons here on Tuesday, Revanth Reddy demanded that the government immediately announce minimum support price for agriculture produce and find lasting solutions to farmers’ woes.

TDP leaders including Revanth Reddy, Ravula Chandrasekhar Reddy, Seethakka and others on Tuesday laid a siege to the office of the Agriculture Commissioner demanding immediate action to resolve farmers’ issues. They alleged that the State government was showing criminal negligence by not offering MSP to the farmers for their produce.“Though the government is making tall promises, it is not implementing schemes for the cause of the farmers,” they charged. He also demanded that the government focus on the farmers’ problems and provide remunerative price to farm produce.

The TDP leaders also staged protests and shouted slogans against the government for denying MSP to chilli and other crops. The farmers were incurring heavy losses due to lack of MSP to their produce such as red gram, chilli, and turmeric, Revanth Reddy said, adding that Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao and Agriculture Minister Pocharam Srinivas Reddy were ignoring farmers’ problems deliberately.

While the neighbouring Andhra Pradesh government was offering a remunerative price of Rs 8,000 to a quintal of chilli, the Telangana government was giving only Rs 3,000 to Rs 4,000, Revanth Reddy said and warned that his party would fight for the cause of the farmers until their problems were resolved by the government.Later, the police took them into custody and whisked them away to the Begum Bazaar police station.