CPI State secretary Ok. Ramakrishna and different social gathering leaders staging a dharna in entrance of Anantapur district Collectors workplace on Monday.
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As a part of a State-wide agitation plan, the Communist Get together of India (CPI), on Monday, launched the ‘Chalo Collectorate’ programme in Anantapur, demanding the State authorities to rescue the farmers who had misplaced their crops due to pretend seeds, premature rains and lack of an honest minimal assist worth.

The CPI State Secretary Ok. Ramakrishna and the social gathering leaders D. Jagadeesh and C. Jaffer had been arrested together with a number of others once they tried to barge into the district Collector’s workplace to present a illustration to the Collector on the farmers’ points. The social gathering leaders and staff staged a dharna in entrance of the Collectorate’s major gate, however the police dispersed them and shifted the arrested leaders to the police stations. The arrested leaders had been launched on private bonds later within the day.

Mr. Ramakrishna, chatting with the media, mentioned that farmers in all of the 26 districts within the State had misplaced a sizeable quantity of crop on account of extra rains and faux seeds, and 1,673 farmers had dedicated suicide for the reason that YSRCP authorities got here to energy. Nonetheless, there was little response from the federal government, he mentioned. The social gathering will maintain related protest programmes at Kurnool on Tuesday and at Nandyal on Wednesday.

The CPI leaders carried broken cotton, groundnut, sugarcane, pomegranate, paddy and turmeric vegetation to the Collector’s workplace. Onion and tomato yields, together with a number of horticulture crops, had been affected in Kurnool and Anantapur districts, however the ruling social gathering leaders, as a substitute of going to the affected farmers’ homes to grasp their issues, had been holding ‘Gadapa Gadapaku Mana Prabhutvam’ as a ritual with no consequence, Mr. Ramakrishna identified.