HYDERABAD: CLP leader Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka will complete 1,000 km of his People’s March padayatra on Sunday. The milestone will be achieved at the Devarakonda Fort. He will unveil a pylon at Gummadavilli to mark the occasion.
The yatra, much of it undertaken under the scorching sun, has so far covered 29 constituencies, its spirit boosted by the party victory in Karnataka.
The yatra which began on March 16 at Pippiri in Adilabad will end at Khammam on June 25. During his walkathon, he focused on the problems caused by the Dharani portal and the unresolved podu land. He has repeatedly called it the biggest land scam in the country.
“I undertook the padayatra as the BRS government failed to live up to the expectation of the people in terms of water, funds and jobs in the newly secured state. The BRS leaders who did not care to complete projects should apologise to the people. The projects constructed during Congress rule are irrigating lakhs of acres. The state government has failed to build houses and is shamelessly criticising us,” Bhatti told a meeting at Devarakonda on Saturday.
The BRS government has limited the PDS to just rice from the nine commodities that were provided earlier. The government is turning a blind eye even as 10 to 15 kgs of paddy is being taken away from farmers in the name of wastage, he said.
Congress leaders had got the state government to start the Srisailam Left Bank Canal to irrigate four lakh acres but the BRS has failed to complete it, he said and asked if the BRS government was ready for a discussion on the power generated by it. “The signs of the Congress coming to power after the Karnataka polls are clearly visible,” he said.
Former TPCC president N. Uttam Kumar Reddy said the BRS government had failed to implement 10 per cent reservation to STs for the last nine years. “It is being done after we raised questions about it in the parliament. The STs lost job opportunities for all these years,” he said.
The government while paying Rs 5,000 udner Rythu Bandhu was causing a loss of Rs 15,000 per acre to farmers, said Manthani MLA Sreedhar Babu. “How can the government celebrate pond festivals without water in them?”
He said the 10th anniversary celebrations were akin to election propaganda of the BRS at the cost of the exchequer. “Our message that we will update the old revenue laws and bring changes to Dharani is being wrongly conveyed to people that we want to stop Rythu Bandhu. We will implement the promises made in Rythu Declaration and Youth Declaration said.
“We will come to power in Telangana, Rajasthan, MP and Chhattisgarh. The Chhattisgarh government is buying crops by giving more than the MSP rates and we will bring the same system in Telangana. The Rajasthan government is providing gas cylinders for '500 and we will do the same in Telangana,” said AICC secretary and Chhattisgarh in-charge Ranjit Ranjan Yadav.
