Revanth resents handcuffing of farmers while taking to court

Hyderabad, May.11: Finding fault with the TRS government for shifting the chilli farmers with handcuffs to the Khammam Court here on Thursday, the leaders of the Opposition parties demanded that Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao tender an apology to the farmers and release them immediately unconditionally.

            Telangana TDP working president A Revanth Reddy addressed a letter in this regard. He  demanded in the letter that the Chief Minister stop speaking silly talk and tender unconditional apology to the farmers. He said the people would not forgive KCR for this atrocity. He also demanded that the State government withdraw the cases filed against the farmers and provide minimum support price to their crop. Revanth Reddy said while he was planning to stage dharna at Khammam in solidarity with chilli farmers on May 12 and 13, the State government denied permission to him. He also alleged that the TRS government was trying to paint agitated farmers as betrayers and the police brought them with handcuffs like pickpockets. He further said the TRS government handcuffed the farmers only to show that all critics would face same fate if anybody speaks against the government.

            Referring to Minister Thummala Nageshwara Rao’s statement that there were rowdies behind the attack on Market Yard, Revanth Reddy asked Thummala as to why the police arrested farmers instead of rowdies. Instead of solving the problem by appoint special officer, the government resorted to arrests at midnight, he slammed.

 The TRS government was not in a position to allocate Rs 1000 crore for the sake of farmers. Slamming the government for squandering money on many unproductive things, Revanth Reddy asked the Chief Minister whether he has no responsibility of providing minimum support price to the farmers. He said the TDP extended financial assistance to the farmers by touring the districts recently and was trying to get bail for farmers by appointing lawyers.

TTDP MLA Sandra Venkata Veeraiah, who visited the court to console the detained farmers, was aghast on seeing them with handcuffs. The shocked MLA said what more evidence was needed about the dictatorial functioning of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. He also alleged that the State government was adopting delay tactics in giving permission to their planned dharna.