Hyderabad, November 12: Former Minister & ex-Leader of Opposition in Telangana Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir demanded that Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao come out of denial mode if he was serious about the welfare of farmers in Telangana.
Addressing the Rythu Deeksha programme at Macha Reddy Chowrasta in Kamareddy district on Thursday, Shabbir Ali alleged that the TRS Government was not even assessing the problems being faced by the farmers in Telangana State. He said that the Chief Minister has entered into a denial mode and is not even willing to listen that lakhs of farmers were in huge stress after losing their crops due to heavy rains, floods, pests and other factors. Citing an example, he said that when some tenant farmers in Shivnoor village of Narsingi mandal set ablaze their damaged crops, the Chief Minister ridiculed them and even claimed that they were not even farmers. He said that the Chief Minister did not even send an official to cross-check whether or not the farmers were expressing genuine grievances.
He reminded that CM KCR tried to defame him by alleging that the Shivnur’s farmer was an electrician. However, he said that he not only proved CM KCR wrong but also challenged him to visit the Shivnoor village to verify the facts. He asked CM KCR to resign from his post as he had failed to prove his allegations.
Shabbir Ali said that the Chief Minister was living in his own illusionary world and assuming that all farmers were doing fine. Contrary to the wrong beliefs and false claims of CM KCR, he said that a majority of farmers across Telangana State were living in misery with no help either from the BJP Government at the Centre or TRS Govt in Telangana. He said that the farmers who lost their crops after cultivating a superfine variety of paddy or those who suffered damage to their crops due to heavy rains and floods got no relief from the authorities. While the BJP Govt at the Centre is trying to crush the farming community through its three new laws, TRS Govt is suppressing the farmers by not helping them in the crisis.
The Congress leader demanded that the State Government pay compensation to the farmers who lost their crops. Further, he said that the State Government must procure the agriculture produce by setting up a procurement centre in every village.
Senior leaders including Kamareddy DCC President Kailash Srinivas Rao, Mohammed Ilyas, Edla Rajireddy, Ponnala Lakshma Reddy, Sanjeev Reddy, Baddam Indrakaran Reddy, ZPTC Mohan Reddy, Nunavat Ganesh Nayak, Brahmanandam Reddy, Shyam Sunder Reddy, Ramesh Goud and others participated in the Rythu Deeksha programme.
