Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) working president Mahesh Kumar Goud said the police under the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) government were handcuffing farmers while taking them to the courts as if they were criminals while BRS leaders were claiming the government to be farmer-friendly.
At a press conference here, he said any government that handcuffed farmers did not have a right to claim itself as doing good to farmers. The way the farmers were being treated as criminals was an indication of the mindset of that government, he said, referring to Bhongir police taking farmers to the court in handcuffs.
It was shameful that the farmers who tried to meet the BRS leaders and officials were charged with criminal cases and taken to the court in handcuffs and more shameful was the way police and the BRS leaders were trying to defend their decision, the Congress leader said. This was not the first time that such an incident happened, he said, and recalled how chilly farmers seeking remunerative price for the produce in Khammam were handcuffed.
