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TJAC Yatra turns damp squib in Medak
There has been lukewarm response to Telangana Joint Action Committee’s (TJAC) ‘Amarula Spoorthy Yatra’ in Medak town, owing to bickering within the Medak unit of the body, making it an uphill task for its chairman Prof Kodandaram to keep the flock together.
Internal strife, rain play spoilsport at the ‘Amarula Spoorthy Yatra’ in the district
Medak: There has been lukewarm response to Telangana Joint Action Committee’s (TJAC) ‘Amarula Spoorthy Yatra’ in Medak town, owing to bickering within the Medak unit of the body, making it an uphill task for its chairman Prof Kodandaram to keep the flock together.
Most of the Medak TJAC members who took active part in the district meetings held two weeks ago in Medak were missing at the public meeting held near the ‘chaman’ in Medak town on Friday. As soon as Prof Kodandaram started speaking on the mike, there was a power-cut. Power came back after a while and just then it started raining. Despite heavy rain, the meeting continued and Kodandaramkept addressing the people.
“92 per cent of farmers in Medak are living in villages. Out of them, 75 per cent are directly dependent on agriculture and 90 per cent of farmers own less than five acres of land. Farmers are not getting paid for their produce even a month after the government has procured their produce. They need loans and money to meet their input costs.
The government has crores to pay the contractors but doesn’t have money to pay farmers,” Kodandaram said. He also found fault with the State government for interfering in farmers’ choice of cultivation last year, when the government had asked the farmers to cultivate red gram.
“The rate for red gram was Rs 13,000 per quintal before the government’s announcement. When the farmers cultivated kandi on a large scale, the rate fell to Rs 4,000- Rs 5,000 per quintal, resulting in farmers incurring losses up to Rs 5,000 crore across the State.
The government did come forward to help, but it was too little, too late and gone in vain,” he commented. Professor Kodandaram also visited Nizam Deccan Sugars Limited factory in Mambojipally before entering to Medak town and spoke to the workers who lost their only livelihood after the sugar factories in Mambojipally, Mittapalli and Bodhan were shut down, affecting the lives of more than 500 families of workers dependent on those factories.
