Congress Party has demanded that the State Government convene a special session of the Telangana State legislature to discuss the farmers’ issues in view of crop failure for the third consecutive time.
Leader of Opposition in the Council Md. Ali Shabbir hit out at Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for skipping farmers’ issue in his Independence Day speech. “The Chief Minister did not mention anything about over 1,000 farmers who committed suicide. There was also no response on demand for increase in ex-gratia as per GO 421,” he said.
“KCR could not speak for even 14 minutes on his 14-month rule. His short speech is a silent confession of his failure to run the administration. He did not speak anything on the promises that he made from Golconda Fort last year,” he said. While a few Dalit families were given pattas for 3-acre of land last year, Mr. Rao failed to provide statistics on how many Dalit families benefitted from the scheme in the last one year.
“The promises of 2 BHK houses, KG to PG free education and 12 per cent reservation for Muslims and STs too failed to find a mention in the CM’s speech,” Mr. Shabbir said adding that I-Day speech was the shortest ever delivered by KCR since he became the Chief Minister.
Mr. Shabbir said that the Congress party was highly disappointed with KCR’s speech as he did not speak anything about the agrarian crisis and the possible shortage of foodgrains in the State. Due to bad weather conditions and mishandling of sector by the TRS Government, Telangana farmers lost three consecutive crops. The drastic cut in sowing area during the last three seasons had a negative impact on overall production and Telangana was heading towards acute shortage of foodgrains, pulses and other products, he added.
