AP-TS farmers frightened by false cases: Jagga Reddy
The Hindu
Only Congress can fight on their behalf
Sangareddy MLA and Telangana Congress working presiden, T. Jayaprakash Reddy has alleged that the farmers of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh were frightened by police foisting false cases against them whenever they took to roads on their issues.
At a press conference here, he said farmers in both states were not protesting in large numbers against the farm laws as they were afraid of police cases. Telangana Chief Minister,K. Chandrasekhar Rao and AP Chief Minister Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy had been suppressing farmers’ protests with false cases, forcing the farmers to make rounds of the courts, which they could ill-afford.
Moreover, Mr Chandrasekhar Rao and Mr YS Jagan had not uttered a word against the farm laws indicating that they were in support of the BJP and all its decisions. He said only Congress could fight on behalf of the farmers whenever they were in trouble and the way Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi responded to the mowing down of the farmers in Uttar Pradesh had sent a strong signal.
In 2021, five women from Mayithara, four of them MGNREGA (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act) workers, found a common ground in their desire to create a sustainable livelihood by growing vegetables. Rajamma M., Mary Varkey, Valsala L., Elisho S., and Praseeda Sumesh, aged between 70 and 39, pooled their savings, rented a piece of land and began their collective vegetable farming journey under the Deepam Krishi group.