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Farmers stage protest demanding input subsidy

Staff Reporter

TDP activists force the closure of Singamamala MRO office

ANANTAPUR: Protests by farmers continued in the district on Thursday demanding input subsidy to those who did not get insurance benefit and for those who did not insure their crop.

TDP activists forced closure of MRO's office at Singanamala and locked it after sending the staff out to register their protest demanding input subsidy to farmers. At Puletipalli, in Chennekothapalli mandal, farmers themselves locked the visiting mandal agriculture officer in a room demanding the same.

Praja Patham gram sabhas in which Minister for Agriculture N. Raghuveera Reddy participated were obstructed by the TDP activists at Lepakshi and Kanchisamudram villages. They questioned the negligence on the issue of input subsidy and demand proper power supply for seven hours. At Pothula Nagepalli in Dharmavaram rural mandal the minister was questioned on the 25 paise interest loans to women self help groups by women themselves. Meanwhile, CPI (M) staged a rasta roko at Gooty demanding input subsidy.

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