KARIMNAGAR, SEPTEMBER 12, 2024: The CPI district unit members have staged a dharna in front of the Collectorate in Karimnagar town on Thursday demanding the Union government to declare recent rains and floods as national calamity and provide assistance to the farming community.
Activists led by CPI district secretary Marri Venkat Swamy, the CPI district unit leaders staged a dharna. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Venkat Swamy said that the rains followed by floods had extensive damage to the farm sector with the inundation of crops, formation of sand dunes in the fields, breaching of minor irrigation tanks and damages to roads and culverts. Standing crops such as maize, paddy, cotton, chillies and other vegetable crops were damaged in the rains.
Appealing the Union government to deploy a central team to assess the crop damages in the Karimnagar district, he demanded the government to declare it as national calamity and sanction Rs 6,000 crore immediate assistance to the state government to take up relief operations.
He also demanded the Congress government to fulfill its poll promises and Indiramma houses, ration cards and house sites. Alleging that the government had failed to fulfill the promise of providing Rs 2 lakh crop loan waiver to the farmers, he sought the implementation of Dalit bandhu scheme.
He also urged the Congress government to revive trade unions in the TGSRTC by conducting the elections. He also flayed the BJP government for not sanctioning funds to the Telangana state. Later, a delegation met Collector Pamela Satpathy and submitted a memorandum. CPI leaders P Kedari, K Srujan Kumar, K Surender Reddy, AISF state president Kasireddy Manikanta Reddy and others were also present.
