Farmers Movement Archive

KTR: Corporates will dictate the market with new farm bills

Hyderabad: In its first salvo against the BJP-led government at the Centre after GHMC elections, the TRS party cadre, right from the ministers in the government, MLAs, MLCs to important leaders participated in Bharat Bandh call given by the various farmers’ organizations on Tuesday. While some ministers staged a dharna and rasta rokos on the national highways, some leaders took out bike rallies and bullock carts in the various parts of the state. The party leaders ensured all the commercial establishments observed bandh till afternoon. Even TSRTC suspended its operations till afternoon. TRS president and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao had criticized the three farm bills approved by the NDA government at the Centre and termed them draconian and detrimental to the interests of the farming community. TRS working president KT Rama Rao, who participated in the rasta roko and dharna programme on the national highway at Burgula toll gate near Shadnagar, said TRS was ready to fight for protecting the interests of farmers for a long term. “While the TRS government protected the interests of farmers by giving Rythu Bandhu and Rythu Bheema, the Centre had cleared the agriculture bills forcibly in the parliament. With these new farm bills, corporates dictate the market and even try to create artificial scarcity,” the working president said while addressing a huge gathering at the dharna.

The Times of India

2020-12-09

Hyderabad