KT Rama Rao to attend Raithu Garjana Sabha in Nirmal on Wednesday

Nirmal: BRS working president KT Rama Rao will participate in the Raithu Garjana Sabha scheduled to be held in Nirmal on Wednesday.

BRS leader Balka Suman, who had been supervising the arrangements while camping in Nirmal for the past few days, said elaborate arrangements had been made for the smooth conduct of the event at Mini NTR Stadium. He urged farmers to participate in large numbers in the meeting. He added that the BRS would use the meeting to expose the Congress government’s anti-farmer policies and failures.

Suman slammed the government, stating that it had failed to address the challenges faced by farmers. He regretted that farmers were reeling under a financial crisis triggered by the El Niño pattern. He alleged that the government was neglecting the agrarian sector even as the BRS was staging protests at regular intervals.

He said farmers across the State were being driven to suicide due to distress caused by poor yields and crop failures. He flayed the government for failing to extend immediate relief to farmers hit by drought. He advised it to draw lessons from the neighbouring Maharashtra government, which released relief of Rs 5,000 to each farmer during the Diwali festival.