Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao accused the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)-led NDA government at the Centre of conspiring against farmers and their landholding by opposing welfare schemes for them on the one hand and denying even support price to their produce and increasing prices of inputs on the other.
“There is a conspiracy behind mooting measures such as fixing meters for farm connections (agricultural pumpsets) so that farmers could get fed up with farming over a period time, paving the way for stepping-in of corporates to take up farming and control the entire food sector,” he said addressing a public meeting organised at Munugode in Nalgonda district on Saturday.
He explained that the idea behind giving support to farmers under Rythu Bandhu and Rythu Bima schemes and 24×7 free power supply was to sustain their interest in farming so that micro-level economy remained robust. Rural areas would be abuzz with economic activity only if the farming sector was sound, he noted.
