Protesters against farm laws take to streets

Expressing solidarity with the nation-wide farmers’ strike against the brand new farm laws, representatives of assorted organisations beneath the banner of Andhra Pradesh Akhila Paksha Rythu Porata Samanvaya Committee, took to streets within the metropolis on Friday.

Raising slogans against what they referred to as ‘black laws’ that will additional exploit the farmers and threaten the meals safety of the nation, the protesters marched from Sri Sri Bhavan and reached Bandar Road through Praja Vaidyasala Road.

They demanded that the brand new agricultural laws introduced in by the Modi authorities at Centre be revoked and as an alternative laws on mortgage waiver and remunerative worth for the farmers be formulated. They additionally condemned the police assault on farmers protesting at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi for a similar trigger.

“The most unfortunate thing here is that there has been no consultation with farmer organisations regarding these draconian laws which will reduce farmers to labourers in their own lands,” lamented a senior chief.

On Bandar Road, the protesters, led by former Minister Vadde Sobhanadreeswara Rao, Y. Kesava Rao, M. Suryanarayana, V. Srinivasa Rao, Ch. Babu Rao, Ravula Venkaiah, Yalamanda Rao, P. Jamalaiah, V. Venkateswarlu and others, have been stopped by the police.

Mild rigidity

There was delicate rigidity when the police personnel jostled with the leaders attempting to forestall them from going forward with their protest rally. The leaders resisted the police pressure and squatted on the bottom elevating slogans.

The police parked their autos throughout the highway, obstructing the protesters from shifting forward and took them into custody.

Many leaders condemned the behaviour of Governorpet CI Krishna Babu accusing him of catching senior leaders by their collar and utilizing abusive language against the protesters. The arrested leaders have been shifted to the Governorpet police station and have been launched by afternoon.