KCR postpones district tours

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao has postponed his tours of the districts from December 19. He will now focus on the agitations the TRS will be holding across Telangana state on December 20 to “protest against anti-farmer policies” of the BJP-led Centre and its refusal to procure paddy from the state.

The Chief Minister called on party leaders and cadre to stage demonstrations in all the 119 Assembly constituencies on December 20. Effigies of the BJP will be burnt during the protests. He had revealed the party’s strategy while addressing a joint meeting of MLAs, MLCs, MPs and district-level leaders at the Telangana Bhavan on Friday.

The Chief Minister was scheduled to visit Wanaparthy on December 19 and Jangaon on December 20. The inauguration of new integrated collectorate complexes and opening of TRS offices in district headquarters during the CM’s visit have now been postponed.

The Chief Minister is expected to visit Wanaparthy on December 23 and Jangaon on December 24. However, an official announcement of the Chief Minister's revised tour programme is yet to be finalised.

The Chief Minister declared that the TRS will continue its fight against the Centre on the issue of paddy procurement.
The party has already organised two state-wide agitation programmes on this issue in November to step up pressure on the Centre to procure paddy from Telangana state.

While all TRS MLAs, MLCs and MPs staged dharnas in all the Assembly constituencies on November 12, the Chief Minister himself sat on a dharna at Indira Park on November 18 with his entire Cabinet, party MLAs, MLCs, MPs and other leaders demanding that the Centre procure paddy from the state.