AIKMS Slams Telangana Farmer, Irrigation Policies

The All-India Kisan Mazdoor Sangh released a document pinning the problems faced by the farmers and labourers across Telangana on the State government's policies.

Speaking on the occasion, Telangana Raithu JAC Chairman and retired Judge B Chandrakumar said that the farmers were facing a lot of monetary and land-related problems, and were committing suicides as a result. He blamed the TRS government for this.

"GO No 123 was heresy in the name of Land Acquisition as it went against well-established norms. KCR should shun such practices from his government, now that the High Court has quashed the order," Chandrakumar said.

AIKMS central president V Venkataramaiah alleged that the State government was attacking tribal people and their livelihoods under the Haritha Haram program under the guise of aforestation.

He accused the district police of destroying 105 acres of corn fields in Oddugudem village of the Khammam district.

The police were also encouraging forest officials to destroy the crops in the lands of farmers Raju and Bose, in Koti Lingala and Rompedu villages of the Illendu mandal. They demanded that the government initiate action against Illendu DSP Veereshwara Rao for this.

Venkataramaiah also claimed that the police had registered false complaints against the villagers who had protested against the construction of the Mallanna Sagar reservoir and GO 123. He warned the government of protests if it failed to withdraw those "false" cases.

AIKMS exhorted the people present there to observe International Tribal Day on August 9 also as Tribal Rights Protection Day.