Release compensation to farmers’ kin: Uttam

May 07, 2015 12:00 am | Updated 05:56 am IST - NALGONDA:

Fighter pilot-turned-politician, Nalamada Uttam Kumar Reddy, the new president of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee, addressing a news conference at his residence in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, on March 2, 2015. Reddy replaced Ponnala Lakshmaiah as TPCC President.
Photo: Mohammed Yousuf

Fighter pilot-turned-politician, Nalamada Uttam Kumar Reddy, the new president of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee, addressing a news conference at his residence in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, on March 2, 2015. Reddy replaced Ponnala Lakshmaiah as TPCC President. Photo: Mohammed Yousuf

State Congress president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy on Wednesday demanded that the State government grant Rs.10 lakh as compensation to the families of farmers who committed suicide.

Although 900 farmers had committed suicide in Telangana since its inception in June 2014, the State government had failed to identify them, Mr. Uttam Kumar Reddy told reporters. He said the TRS government had neglected the farm sector and that it had nothing for the farmers who suffered huge losses in untimely rains.

Rahul visit

On Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s padayathra in Adilabad district, Mr. Reddy said Mr. Gandhi will take part in a rally which will be attended by over 30,000 farmers in a remote tribal habitation near Nirmal.

The PCC president also said the State Congress was also planning a ‘Dalit and Girijana Garjana’ within a month to highlight how the TRS government had failed to fulfil promises made to SCs and STs during the election campaign.

He said the State govt.

had failed to identify the 900 farmers who had committed suicide since Telangana formation

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