Farmers Movement Archive

Pass resolution in assembly against farm laws: Congress

HYDERABAD: Congress on Tuesday demanded the central government immediately withdraw the three contentious farm laws and protect the interests of farmers. It also demanded that chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao convene a special session of the assembly to pass resolutions against the three anti-farmers laws brought by the Narendra Modi government. Telangana Congress president N Uttam Kumar Reddy said the TRS government should pass new laws in the legislature under Article 254 (2) of the Constitution overriding the central laws. Stating that Congress would continue to fight against the BJP government until the anti-farmer laws were withdrawn, Uttam said the new farm laws would benefit the corporates and not farmers. “The reluctance by the BJP government in not giving constitutional protection to the minimum support price (MSP) indicates its preference for corporates. These laws would boost hoarding and food price inflation due to abolition of the marketyard system,” he alleged. Uttam ridiculed TRS for its support to Bharat Bandh. “Farmers were handcuffed and beaten up on various occasions in Telangana. The agricultural land parcels of thousands of farmers have been taken away by TRS government for pharma city and other projects. The Rs 1 lakh crop loan waiver promise is yet to be implemented. On the diktat of the government, farmers cultivated a fine variety of paddy and suffered Rs 10,000 per acre loss. TRS government did not purchase the fine variety paddy at Rs 2,500 per quintal,” he alleged. The farmers did not get crop insurance due to the negligence of the TRS government, which did not even enumerate the damages caused to crops due to heavy rains and floods. The losses were up to Rs 5,000 crore, he alleged. Meanwhile, Congress leaders N Uttam Kumar Reddy, Komatireddy Venkat Reddy, A Revanth Reddy, Ponnam Prabhakar, Bhatti Vikramarka, V Hanumanth Rao, T Ram Mohan Reddy, Jeevan Reddy, Madhu Yashki, T Jayaprakash Reddy, Dasoju Sravan, Anil Kumar Yadav staged rasta rokos and dharnas on various national highways in support of farmers’ Bharat Bandh and demanded withdrawal of the three anti-farmer laws.

The Times of India

2020-12-09

Hyderabad