Hyderabad: Condemning the lathicharge on farmers of Kistapur, Congress leader Shabbir Ali on Sunday warned the TRS government of an agitation if it forcibly acquires land from farmers for irrigation projects.
Mr Ali, Leader of Opposition in the Telangana state Legislative Council, was speaking to mediapersons at Gandhi Bhavan, He alleged that the government was using coercive methods to collect consent letters from farmers to acquire land for the Mallannasagar reservoir in Medak district.
He said that the government was not willing to pay adequate compensation to the farmers as prescribed by the Land Acquisition Act 2013. He alleged that the TRS government has re-designed the Mallannasagar reservoir by increasing its capacity from 1.5 TMC to 50 TMC without calculating the economical impact.
It wants farmers to settle for peanuts while denying them the promised benefits under the Compensation Act. He said that the land which government proposes to acquire was fertile and two crops were cultivated every year.
