Maharashtra farmers say they support CM KCR.

Farmers from the Shetkari Sanghatana said that CM KCR's speech led to discussions about Telangana's welfare programmes in every home and more political activity in the state.

Farmers across the country, especially in Maharashtra, are becoming more and more supportive of Bharat Rashtra Samithi President and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao. On Wednesday, the Shetkari Sanghatana, an organisation of farmers, asked the Chief Minister to take the helm of the farmers' movement in a letter.

They said that farmers in Maharashtra were excited about Chandrashekhar Rao and the BRS coming to the state. The number of farmer suicides in Nanded dropped after the public meeting on February 5 at Bhokar in the district. Leaders of Sanghatana, a national farmers' movement based in Maharashtra and started by the legendary farmers' leader Sharad Joshi, said that the Chief Minister's speech had led to discussions about Telangana's welfare programmes in every home, as well as more political activity in the State.

In a letter to the Chief Minister, Sudhir Sudhakarao Bindu, the state president of the Shetkari Sanghatana Youth Alliance, said that most farmers in Maharashtra thought that all farmers should be able to benefit from programmes like the ones in Telangana.

Because things were so bad in Maharashtra that about seven farmers killed themselves every day, Chandrashekhar Rao's arrival gave them new hope.

"If you've noticed, since the BRS meeting in Nanded, the number of farmer suicides in Nanded district has gone down," he said. He also said that the demand for a merger from many villages on the Maharashtra-Telangana border had made farmers wonder why people from one State wanted to join with people from another State.

After this, the leaders of Sanghatana, along with Narsing Deshmukh, a farmer leader, and Gangadhar Prachanda, a journalist, went to 40 villages in Maharashtra to talk to farmers, Dalits, women, and people with disabilities about the welfare programmes being run in Telangana.

People from different parts of the country talked about the Rythu Bandhu plan. He said that many said the scheme had helped their relatives in Telangana become more socially and economically independent in the last seven to eight years. He also said they then went on tours of several villages in Telangana.

The feedback from villagers in Telangana was interesting because everyone who benefited from the schemes said they did not have to pay anyone.

Sudhakarao Bindu said, "All the schemes that the Telangana government is putting in place to help Sharad Joshi suggested farmers." He compared the plan to the Marshall Plan, made by former US Secretary of State General George Marshall, to help Europe recover after World War II.

After Sharad Joshi died, the farmers' union leaders and activists had to figure out who would continue the fight for farmers' welfare.

We see a General Marshall in you, and all the farmers' movement leaders and workers who collaborate with us want to collaborate with you. I need you to arrange a conference call for our top brass," he said. He also tasked Chandrashekhar Rao with devising a strategy to aid India's struggling farmer community.