Vijayawada meet only to scare farmers

Hyderabad, Jan 7: Taking strong objection to Chandrababu Naidu holding pre-budget meeting at Vijayawada with a 250-strong contingent, including police officers while leaving behind the top bureaucrats in the city, YSR Congress has said that the extravaganza is uncalled for and the inclusion of police force is only to scare the farmers who are not willing to part with their land in the capital region. “Chandrababu Naidu has taken along with him a 250-strong team with him for the pre-budget meeting leaving out the Principal Secretaries of Finance, Revenue and other Departments and including a posse of police officers that shows that TDP government is sending a warning signal to the farmers who are up in arms against the land pooling policy, Party MLA G. Srikanth Reddy told reporters here on Wednesday.