Senior Congress leader Mohammed Ali Shabbir Ali today charged Roads & Buildings Minister Tummala Nageshwara Rao with misleading the people with wrong statistics on farmers’ suicides.
Contending Tummala’s claim that AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi met the families of farmers, who had committed suicides during previous Congress regime, Ali produced copies of FIRs relating to suicide by four farmers. He said Satham Gangadhar committed suicide on July 19, 2014, Pasupula Laxman on October 13, Soodi Laxmanna on November 16 and Bondla Linganna on November 29. He also expressed wonder on the “ignorance” of TRS ministers on the issue of farmers’ suicides.
Shabbir Ali said while the TRS ministers, legislators and MPs, who genuinely participated in the Telangana movement, are maintaining silence on the issue, the “betrayers” were making a hue and cry over Rahul Gandhi’s visit. He also called upon different JACs and NGOs, who participated in the statehood movement, to take to streets against the anti-people policies of TRS Government. (NSS)