KCR may soon get into agitation mode over farmers’ issue

HYDERABAD: Two days after being released on bail from Tihar Jail, BRS MLC K Kavitha met her father and pink party chief K Chandrasekhar Rao at his Erravalli farmhouse in Markook mandal of Siddipet district on Thursday afternoon.

As Kavitha touched his feet, seeking blessings, the visibly happy former chief minister enquired about her health. Rao reportedly asked his daughter not to get worried but to fight the legal battles with courage and conviction. After the release of Kavitha, the BRS president appears to have gained new strength. He has reportedly decided to launch an agitation against the Congress government for failing to extend the benefits of farm loan waiver scheme to all farmers and to pay Rythu Bharosa assistance.

According to sources, the Leader of Opposition has elicited opinion from party leaders on taking up an agitation on farm loan waivers and the situation at the ground level after the state government had said that the Rs 2 lakh loan waiver has been implemented fully.

The MLAs, MLCs and former ministers are reported to have told the former chief minister that only 40 per cent of the eligible farmers were covered under the scheme while a majority of farmers had been left high and dry.