Farmers Movement Archive

Cong demands KCR to pass assembly resolution against farm laws

Hyderabad: The Congress has demanded chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao to convene a special session of the state assembly and pass a resolution that the Telangana government will not implement the three farm legislations brought by the BJP government at the Centre. “If KCR is really concerned about the welfare of the farmers, the ruling TRS should not confine its support only to the Bharat Bandh on Tuesday but also pass a resolution in the assembly against the three Acts, stating that the TRS government will not implement the three anti-farmer laws in the state,” said former Congress minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah. AICC spokesperson Dasoju Sravan sought to ask the director general of police whether the cops will make preventive arrests or place under house arrest the ministers, MLAs and other leaders of the ruling TRS to stop them from participating in the Bharat Bandh. “The police conveniently took into their custody or placed under house arrest the Congress leaders whenever they set out to protest against anti-people policies of either the TRS or the BJP governments on the pretext of law and order maintenance and Covid-19 guidelines. Will the police apply the same logic to the ruling TRS leaders on Tuesday,” asked Sravan? The Congress leaders said KCR’s announcement that TRS will fully support the bandh is nothing but a drama. “The TRS has supported the Modi-led BJP government at the Centre for passing of many bills which were anti-poor and anti-farmers in the Parliament. If the TRS is genuinely concerned about the welfare of farmers, it would not have waited so long to announce its support. KCR is scared of Modi to pass resolution in the assembly against the three farm Acts,” Lakshmaiah said. The Congress leaders also attacked KCR for not paying adequate compensation to the farmers whose crops were badly hit due to the heavy rains and floods. “Is it not the KCR government, which is dictating to the farmers what they should cultivate,” he asked? “At least now, try to know the problems being faced by the farmers by joining them in the Bandh,” he added.

The Times of India

2020-12-08

Hyderabad