Telangana CLP leader starts 13-day statewide farmers interaction tour

Naveen S Garewal 
Tribune News Service
Hyderabad, February 9

Continuing his protest against the farm bills passed by the Union Government and demanding the continuation of agriculture produce purchase canters in the state, the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Bhatti Vikramarka Mallu and other party MLAs and MLCs on Tuesday started a 13-day statewide tour “Raithulato Mukhamukhi” (direct interaction with farmers). 

Mallu said the awareness and protest march started from Adilabad and will cover several districts before finally culminating in Khammam District on the 21st February.   

During this march, Mallu and other party leaders will interact with farmers and spread awareness of the “hidden agenda” in the farm laws.

As part of the tour program, the delegation of the Congress leaders will be visiting markets and agricultural fields.  

He lashed out at the state government for its sheer negligence, and incapacity to come to the rescue of farmers and for its utter failure in all the fronts.

He said CM KCR had taken a U-turn on the draconian farm Laws being brought in by the NDA government soon after KCR’s Delhi trip.

The CLP leader said people in Telangana are not slaves like KCR and them, especially, farmers would fight tooth and nail till the farm laws, which were enacted to help the big corporates, are withdrawn unconditionally. 

This tour program is also aimed to rebuild confidence among the farmers who are under distress due to the pro-corporate policies adopted by the Union Government and the State Government.  

CLP leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka has been in the forefront vehemently protesting against the Union Farm Bills.

Mallu organised relay fast at Indira Park in Hyderabad in January, in November 2020, and he had organised a 60-kilometre tractor rally in Khammam district besides a human chain protest and Raitu Kavatu (farmers march). 

Listing out the exploitation of farmers under the KCR rule, the CLP leader said under the Fasal Bhima Yojana, though farmers have paid their share, the state government did not put in its share resulting in stoppage of Rs 960 Crore funds.

This is directly harming the farmers, he concluded.