: Farmers forum may be KCRs launchpad for national politics #IndiaNEWS #News Hyderabad: The proposed joint forum of farmers at the national level to replicate Telanganas success in agriculture is likely

Farmers forum may be KCRs launchpad for national politics #IndiaNEWS #News
Hyderabad: The proposed joint forum of farmers at the national level to replicate Telanganas success in agriculture is likely to be the launchpad for Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Raos foray into national politics.
The two-day discussion he had with leaders of farmers organisations from 26 states here is the beginning of the effort to form a national body, which may later become a national political party with farmers issues at the core of its agenda.
The deliberations the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief had with farmer leaders at his official residence Pragati Bhavan indicate that he has finally taken the initiative to unite the farmer organisations from across the country to work on the alternate national agenda.
With leaders of farmers unions unanimously adopting a resolution urging KCR to lead a nationwide campaign to unite farmers for struggles, the TRS leader appears set to don a national role.
The farm leaders, who were impressed with the initiatives taken by KCRs government, requested him to lead a nationwide campaign to unite farmers for struggles right from the village level.
On the second day of the meeting on Sunday, leaders of farmer unions urged KCR to prepare the blueprint for the struggles taking into consideration the changed agricultural scenario in the country.
KCR called for democratic agitations and Parliamentary form of struggles on the lines of the agitation for statehood to Telangana to resolve the problems of agriculture and farmers in the country.
Lamenting that farmers did not find solutions to their problems even 75 years after Indias Independence, KCR felt 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 state joined the Jai Telangana chorus.
KCR also underlined the need for linking the farmers agitation with legislatures. He recalled that the Telangana movement became stronger after people expressed their demand for a state through the medium of vote in elections.
He suggested to the farmer leaders to enter politics and get elected to statutory bodies to take up issues of agriculture. He also emphasized the need to sensitize people to vote for farmers.
A bitter critic of Narendra Modi governments faulty agricultural policies, KCR presided over lengthy discussions on how these policies resulted in the collapse of the farming sector.
The farmer leaders agreed that the pro-farmer programmes of Telangana like Rythu Bandhu, Rythu Bima and free power to agriculture rattled the Centre.
They passed a resolution to form a National Farmers United Forum to replicate Telanganas development in agriculture and farmer welfare policies across the country.

Stock Market NEWS Best intraday tips Intraday Stocks below 100