Telangana Telugu Desam Party (TTDP) alleged that the ruling party leaders were merely giving speeches and doing nothing for the farmers, and demanded that the Telangana government reveal its stand on the farmers clearly.
Speaking to the media at NTR Trust Bhavan on Sunday, TDP politburo member Ravula Chandrashekar Reddy said that the distressed farmers were setting their produce ablaze in disgust as they could not get a minimum support price for their produce. He also said that the ministers were atrociously dubbing the farmers as rowdies.
He pointed out that some 3,000 farmers had committed suicides in Telangana in the last 1,000 days.
Expressing concern over the conditions, Ravula also requested Telangana's poets and writers, who had high social awareness, to bring the facts to the notice of the government.
He also demanded that the state government purchase chilli and tur dal immediately from the farmers and render justice to them.