Poor KCR! Despite trying all kinds of gimmicks to attract the farming community, for some reason, the relationship between TRS and the farmers has never been right.
After promising the moon to farmers for participating in the T-agitation, ironically, he became the first Chef Minister to have them handcuffed and taken to prison.
In Nizamabad yesterday, it was nothing short of a war situation as there was a massive deployment of police forces to thwart the farmers who were agitating for the release of water from Sriram Sagar Project to save their standing crops.
The government has refused citing drinking water needs. Farmers belonging to 24 villages in Jagtial and Nizamabad districts are protesting.
All the top IAS and IPS officers are camping in Nizamabad and monitoring the situation.
“In the past, when we had a similar problem Kiran Sir (Kiran Kumar Reddy) released 0.4 tmc water and protected our crops. If water is not released now, the crop in entire 4 districts will be lost. What shall we do then?” lamented one farmer.
Even four years after the formation of Telangana, if there is massive deployment of police forces and farmers are taken into preventive custody, with no free KG-PG education, no 2BHK houses and no job for every household and to top it all, if farmers take the name of an Andhra Chief Minister as their saviour in the past, surely, there is something wrong with Bangaru Telangana.