Kamareddy: Farmers threatened to file numerous nominations against BRS candidate, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao in Kamareddy assembly constituency following a row over the proposed master plan for Kamareddy municipality.
Farmers’ joint action committee conducted a meeting at Lingapur village in Kamareddy on Tuesday and demanded that the master plan be junked. The master plan would convert the fertile agricultural lands into an industrial zone, they felt.
Farmers said that each village in the constituency will file 15 nominations against KCR. We would file over 100 nominations in the constituency.”
“Ignoring the interests of farmers, the state government set up a flex board in Kamareddy municipality for a new master plan and it claimed the life of a farmer, who committed suicide. Usually, farmers will be sympathisers of all political parties, but in Kamareddy all will unite against the master plan,” they said.
‘Agricultural lands are our ancestral assets and we will depend on them. Farmers will not switch over their profession easily,” they said.
Chief Minister Chandrashekar Rao should give a clear assurance that the new master plan will be scrapped before he files his nomination for Kamareddy assembly constituency apart from Gajwel, the farmer leaders said.
They said, “The state government should bring an ordinance to abolish the master plan, which adversely affects the farmers in Kamareddy.”
The farmer leaders said if the government abolished the master plan, they would support the BRS in the coming polls. "
The farmers raised slogans ‘Jai Jawan Jai Kisan’ and ‘Abolish master plan’. They said they would announce the further course of agitation by the joint action committee soon.
