KTR flays govt. for ‘foisting’ case against ryots seeking timely supply of urea

HYDERABAD

BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao has criticised the government for “harassing a farmer in Rajanna Sircilla district with false cases for making comments, made out of distress arising out of not getting timely supply of urea, thereby damaging his standing crops.

In a statement on Friday, he sought to know whether Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, who would always make tall claims about the right to protest as guaranteed by the Constitution when in Opposition, was not aware of the urea crisis being faced by farmers.

He stated that Laxman Yadav, a farmer of Yellareddypet in the district, had commented that the farming community had believed in the false promises and guarantees of the Congress and voted for it, but was now paying for the mistake and struggling to get even a timely supply of urea. Police raided his house and terrorised the family by foisting a case, he said.

The BRS leader asked whether farmers had no right even to protest for a bag of urea in the ‘Indiramma Rajyam’ and wanted AICC leader Rahul Gandhi, who was holding a copy of the Constitution in his hand every time he went out to react to the incident. He urged the government to stop foisting cases against farmers protesting for urea and supply it in required quantities in time to get good yields or else the BRS would join the farmers’ protests.