BRS holds Rythu Dharna at Kodangal opposing forcible land pooling

BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao with a newborn daughter of a farmer who was held in the Lagcherla incident, at Kodangal on Monday.
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HYDERABAD

Working president of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K.T. Rama Rao has alleged that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy is planning to acquire lands in the Kodangal constituency only to benefit his siblings, his son-in-law and the Adani group.

The Congress government had arrested farmers for the simple reason that they had strongly opposed giving up lands at a throwaway price of ₹10 lakh per acre, when they were commanding a price of ₹60 lakh per acres in the market, Mr. Rama Rao said speaking at Rythu Maha Dharna organised in Kodangal on Monday.

Party Leaders Patnam Narendra Reddy, P. SABITHA Indra Reddy, V. Prashanth Reddy, P. Kaushik Reddy, MD. Mahamud Ali, Satyavathi Rathod, Naveen Kumar Reddy, V. Srinivas Goud, M. Kavitha, B. Suman, S. Niranjan Reddy, Ch. Rammohan Reddy, C. Laxma Reddy, K. Mahesh Reddy, S. Rajender Reddy, A. Venkateshwar Reddy and others Participated in the Rythu Maha Dharna in Kodangal.

He alleged that the government had only targeted the BRS leaders and sympathisers in the Lagacherla incident, when there was video proof that Congress and BJP leaders too participated in the protest. He recollected how the farmers were lifted from their homes at midnight, terrorising the family members and how the Chief Minister had victimised Mr. Narender Reddy.

BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao speaking at Rythu Dharna in Kodangal on Monday.
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Mr. Rama Rao said the Chief Minister had betrayed the farming community on every promise he had made before the Assembly elections either fulfilling them partly or not implementing them at all. During the visit, he met Jyothi, the wife of a farmer who was arrested illegally in the Lagacherla incident and named their newborn girl child as ‘Bhumi Nayak’.

He recollected how Ms. Jyothi had emerged as the face of the resistance against the Congress government’s forcible land pooling in Lagacherla and a few other villages of Kodangal constituency and how she had raised her voice in New Delhi for the cause.