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Govt fiddling while farmers fret: TPCC
A delegation of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee, led by its President N Uttam Kumar Reddy, on Friday, pleaded with Governor E S L Narasimhan to use his good offices to ensure release of arrested farmers following the violence at Khammam Market Yard.
The handcuffing of farmers by policemen drew an avalanche of criticism from political parties and civil society. Already down in the dumps due to a variety of factors, farmers continue to be at the receiving end from the powers-that-be. As the days roll by, protests over a raft of issues concerning different sections of society are mounting across the State.
Hyderabad: A delegation of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee, led by its President N Uttam Kumar Reddy, on Friday, pleaded with Governor E S L Narasimhan to use his good offices to ensure release of arrested farmers following the violence at Khammam Market Yard.
The delegation submitted a memorandum to the Governor to this effect. The Congress leaders charged the police with arresting the farmers on flimsy grounds. They strongly condemned the police handcuffing the arrested farmers when the latter were taken the court. The TPCC leaders accused Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao of acting against poor farmers.
Uttam Kumar Reddy said the incident of farmers being taken to the court in handcuffs had shocked the people. On one hand the government was ignoring the farmers and on the other it was unleashing repression all types of protests.
Talking to the media, the TPCC president said the State government had wilfully turned a blind eye to the issue of remunerative price for agricultural produce for the last three years. He demanded that the government explain why it did not allocate Rs 1,000 crore to buy chilli, Turmeric, pulses, and other produce when it has a huge budget outlay of Rs 1.49 lakh crore.
Why the Chief Minister is spending hundreds of crores of rupees on his official residence, cars, buses, foreign travel in chartered jets, while failing to come to the rescue of small and marginal farmers who are in distress," he asked.
UIttam Kumar Reddy said the farmers in the State had suffered losses due to an indifferent and inefficient government, unseasonal rains, bad quality seeds and demonetisation, to name a few. He demanded that all restrictions placed on movement of agriculture produce be removed and the police deployment in Market Yards be withdrawn.
The Congress delegation comprised senior leaders, Ponnala Lakshmaiah, Shabbir Ali, J Geetha Reddy, Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy, K R Suresh Reddy, Gudur Narayana Reddy, K Nagaiah and Nerella Sharada.
