Guntur: The YSRCP has launched its third leg of ' Farmers and Farm Labourers Rights Preservation Committee' tour in the capital region amid reports that the agitation had been silenced and that the government was going ahead with its land pooling in  Thullur, Mangalagiri and Tadepalle mandals.

•     Continues tour in capital region
•     Farm labouers want jobs and  compensation of Rs 5 lakh

Committee leader K Parthasaradhy and members who commenced the tour on Wednesday and continued it on Thursday have been addressing meetings in Thullur, Shakamur, Ananthavaram and Nekallu villages and Mangalagiri region, reiterating their support to farmers, who do not want to part with their lands.

Parthasaradhy , who addressed farmers in several villages, stated that the party, in principle, was not opposed to locating the capital between Mangalagiri and Thullur, but was against forcible land acquisition. He told ryots that the party will stand by them and fight tooth and nail if the government disregarded their feelings.  Most of the four villages have more farm labour. The labourers want  government jobs for each family and compensation of Rs.5 lakh each.

Just because two busloads of farmers had gone to Hyderabad and met Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu it did not mean they represented the entire farming community in the region’, the leaders maintained.  

Mangalagiri MLA Alla Ramakrishna Reddy said he would raise the farmers’ land issue in the Assembly after the tour.  Rythu Coolie Sangham leader Nagi Reddy said the government could not ignore land acquisition, rehabilitation and re-settlement laws and just go ahead with its decisions.

Source: THI