HYDERABAD: The Congress on Monday appealed to the various farmers welfare associations, civil society organisations, non-governmental organisations and political parties to pass resolutions on various platforms in the society demanding repeal of the three central farm laws, which it said were anti-farmer.
“The best way of exerting pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao is to ensure that the agitational programmes against the new central farm laws are spread to the nooks and corners of the country,” said A Revanth Reddy, working president of Telangana Congress.
Revanth, also a MP from Malkajgiri is on a 140-km Rajiv Rythu Bharosa pada yatra from Atchampet in Nagarkurnool district to Hyderabad demanding repeal of new central farm laws and revival of procurement centres in Telangana. “If needed, I will extend my pada yatra in support of farmers to other areas,” Revanth said.
Stating that the farmers and poorer sections were a worried lot in Telangana, Revanth said: “I have been interacting with peasants and poor women during my pada yatra. One woman told me she had to sell her earrings for livelihood in the so-called Bangaru Telangana. Both Modi and KCR are selling the interests of the farmers to the corporates,” he alleged.