Justice Reddy Warns Against Misuse of Farmhouses
Justice Reddy called on the Telangana Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Commission to organise a meeting with the Chief Minister and agriculture minister along with RSV representatives where the findings of the report on tenant farmers can be discussed.
Hyderabad: Justice B. Sudershan Reddy on Tuesday called for a crackdown on farmhouses in the state, declaring that such places have become “centres for antisocial activities.”
Addressing a meeting where the Rythu Swarajya Vedika (RSV) released its ‘Telangana Tenant Farmers Survey Report 2026’, Justice Reddy said, “Farmhouses are neither farms, nor houses. These are actually making a mockery of agriculture.” Justice Reddy, whose nomination as the opposition candidate for the last Vice-President of India elections was championed by Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, also said the government should relook at why farmhouse owners should not be excluded from state provided aid to farmers as no agriculture takes place in such compounds.
Justice Reddy also said one of the worst cuts on tenant farmers was imposed by the previous BRS government which removed Column 16 in the ‘Pahani’ land records, in which the name of the actual cultivator of farm land used to be listed. This must be revived, he said, adding that Revanth Reddy when he was the TPCC president had raised several of the issues faced by tenant farmers and promised to address them.
He called on the Telangana Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Commission to organise a meeting with the Chief Minister and agriculture minister along with RSV representatives where the findings of the report on tenant farmers can be discussed.
