BRS legislators staging a protest on the urea crisis in State, at Gun Park, in front of the Assembly Buildings, in Hyderabad, on Saturday.
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HYDERABAD
The Opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) legislators staged a series of protests on the “severe scarcity” of urea in Telangana and the problems being faced by the farming community, at Gun Park, Office of the Agriculture Commissioner, and Secretariat, on Saturday, the first day of the monsoon session of the Legislature.
Before the commencement of the sitting for the day, the BRS legislators led by K.T. Rama Rao and T. Harish Rao staged a protest at Gun Park raising slogans against the State government on the urea shortage, holding placards, and empty sacks of the soil nutrient supplement.
After the brief sitting of the Assembly, they proceeded to the office of the Commissioner of Agriculture near L.B. Stadium.
As the Commissioner was not present, the BRS legislators went to the chambers of Director B. Gopi and submitted a memorandum on the urea crisis in the State and requested measures to resolve the problem. There too they raised slogans and staged a protest on the office premises, forcing the police to step in and bundle them into vans. They were dropped at Assembly buildings.
Later, they proceeded to the Secretariat to meet the Chief Secretary on the issue, but were denied entry into the premises. The BRS legislators staged a protest there too and raised slogans against the State government by holding placards. Again, the police took them into custody.
BRS leader T. Harish Rao speaking to Director of Agriculture B. Gopi on the urea crisis in the State, in Hyderabad, on Saturday.
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Earlier, speaking at the Gun Park, Mr. Rama Rao said the Congress government in the State had forced the farming community to stand in queues for getting one bag of urea. He said that the BRS is ready to debate on any issue in the Assembly but asked the government to take up the urea issue first as it concerns the most to the farming community in the middle of the kharif season.
He noted that there was no urea crisis for 10 years when BRS was in office but once the Congress took over the scenes of farmers standing in queues or keeping their footwear or Aadhaar cards in queues for urea had made a return. Mr. Rama Rao said the BRS is ready to debate on the Kaleshwaram issue too and termed the P.C. Ghose Commission as the PCC (Pradesh Congress Committee) Ghose Commission instituted to settle political scores by defaming BRS.
Senior leader T. Harish Rao also slammed the Congress government on the urea crisis.
Published – August 30, 2025 07:25 PM is
