FARMERS’ WOES Party rally in Kamareddy turns emotional as scores of farmers narrate their plight Kamareddy: Leader of Opposition ...
FARMERS’ WOES
Party rally in Kamareddy turns emotional as scores of farmers narrate their plight
Kamareddy: Leader of Opposition in Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir on Thursday said the Congress’ war against the anti-farmer policies of Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government had now begun, adding that they would not allow the same circumstances to prevail which were forcing the farmers to commit suicide.
“The governments, both at the State and the Centre should mend ways or face public anger,” he said while addressing a massive rally in Kamareddy of Nizamabad district here on Thursday.The rally and public meeting were organised by the Congress workers of Kamareddy to felicitate Shabbir Ali on getting appointed as the Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council. However, the rally took an emotional turn at the beginning itself.
While Shabbir Ali was being felicitated by the Congress leaders of Basvapur village, some women came near the dais and narrated the problems which they were facing under the TRS regime. While some elderly women complained of non-receipt of ration for the last six month, a young girl, Shanti, told Shabbir Ali that her father Chinta Ramaiah had committed suicide after his name was removed from the pensioners' list.
A few other women complained of problems they were facing in getting ration cards and pensions. Their narration was so emotional that the Congress workers started raising slogans against the Chief Minister and the concerned MRO. A farmer of Basvapur met the Congress leaders with a bunch of his crops which got damaged in the recent unseasonal rains.
He said he had suffered losses in the last season due to deficient rainfall and erratic power supply and this season, unseasonal rains had washed away all his hopes. Similar complaints were received when the Congress rally proceeded towards the venue of public meeting at Satya Gardens on Sircilla Road in Kamareddy.
Shabbir Ali said out of 459 mandals in Telangana, as many as 332 had received deficient rainfall. But the State government did not declare drought-hit mandals to seek Central assistance, he alleged. Similarly, the government did not prepare any report despite farmers losing crops spread over one lakh acres due to unseasonal rains.
More than 750 farmers had committed suicide since the formation of the TRS government in June last year and one farmer committed suicide in every 10-12 hours. He also criticised the government for not paying compensation as per GO Ms No 421 to the families of farmers who committed suicide.
Senior Congress leaders including former MP Suresh Kumar Shetkar, Mahila Congress president Akula Lalitha, TPCC Secretary Mohd Javeed Ahmed and Nallavelli Ashok, Nizamabad DCC president Taher Bin Hamdan, municipal chairperson Sushma, former MLA Ganga Ram and several corporators, councillors, ZPTC, MPTC members, Sarpanches and other leaders also addressed the public meeting.
