To Unite Farmers, KCR Will Lead A Nationwide Campaign.

CM KCR meeting with leaders of farmers' unions from 26 States on Sunday unanimously adopted a resolution. In the resolution they urged him to lead a nationwide campaign to unite farmers for struggles right from the village level.

Leaders at the meeting urged Mr. Rao to prepare the blueprint for the struggles taking into consideration the changed agricultural scenario in the country.

Earlier, Mr.Rao sought democratic agitations and a Parliamentary form of struggle like it took place in the Statehood movement of Telangana to resolve the problems of agriculture and farmers in the country.

The struggles should reach a stage where people who set up obstacles to agriculture would be forced to raise ‘Jai Kisan’ slogans like those who were opposed to separate States joined the ‘Jai Telangana’ chorus. He lamented it was unfortunate that farmers did not find solutions to their problems even in the diamond jubilee year of independent India.

In this context, he suggested a peaceful agitation through Parliamentary means to achieve their goals. There were never instances in the past when agitations that did not touch the legislatures succeeded. Like people of Telangana were asked to express their demand for a State through the medium of the vote in elections, he said people should be sensitized to vote for farmers for election to legislatures.

TRS president appealed to farmer leaders to enter politics and get elected to statutory bodies to take up issues of agriculture.