Kamareddy: The efforts of BRS working president and IT minister K.T. Rama Rao bore fruit with farmers, who threatened to file more than 100 nominations, against Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao in Kamareddy Assembly constituency on the tricky master plan issue, deciding against going ahead with their protest.
In a bid to resolve the issue, Rama Rao invited leaders from the farmers’ joint action committee leaders here on Saturday and assured to abolish the new master plan for Kamareddy municipality. He also assured withdrawal of police cases against farmers who had participated in an agitation against the master plan last January.
Around 22 farmers from eight merged villages in Kamareddy municipality met Rao and discussed the new master plan. He said that the new master plan was cancelled and a resolution of the municipal council had been passed.
Rao spoke to officials of the directorate of town and country planning, DGP Anjani Kumar and Kamareddy superintendent of police Sindhu Sharma about the master plan and sought the status of police cases against farmers. He directed DTCP officials to follow the existing master plan in Kamareddy municipality. He assured that the state government would not harm the interests of farmers.
Later, speaking to Deccan Chronicle M. Srikanth Reddy, a farmer from Adloor Yellareddy village, said that they had informed Rama Rao that the new master plan would adversely affect fertile agricultural lands.
‘We are hopeful that cases filed against farmers will be lifted soon’, he said. As the election code was in vogue, farmers understood the difficulty in making an official statement on the cancellation of the new master plan, he said.
