Cops foil water stir by farmers
FARMERS belonging to 24 villages in Nizamabad and Jagitial districts are demanding release of water from SRSP to save their standing crops.
Fifteen years after the Naxalite movement ended, people in north Telangana districts have witnessed huge police forces in their villages for last couple of days.
Hundreds of policemen were deployed villages in undivided Nizamabad and Karimnagar districts on Sunday to quell the agitation of farmers demanding release of water from the Sriramsagar project.
Nizamabad, Siddipet Commissioner of Police Kartikeya, D. Joel Davis, Kamareddy, Nirmal districts superintends of police N. Swetha, Sashidhar Raju camped in Armoor division and supervising the security arrangements.
Farmers belonging to 24 villages in Nizamabad and Jagitial districts are demanding release of water from SRSP to save their standing crops. But the state government, citing drinking water needs, refused to release water and this has led to a series of agitations. Farmers along with their family members have decided to besiege the Sriramsagar project and carry out agitations in their villages in protest against the decision of the government.
Fifteen years after the Naxalite movement ended, people in north Telangana districts have witnessed huge police forces in their villages for last couple of days. Hundreds of policemen were deployed villages in undivided Nizamabad and Karimnagar districts on Sunday to quell the agitation of farmers demanding release of water from the Sriramsagar project.
Nizamabad police commissioner Kartikeya, Siddipet commissioner D. Joel Davis, Kamareddy superintendent of police N. Swetha and Nirmal SP Sashidhar Raju camped in Armoor division and supervising the security arrangements.
Farmers belonging to 24 villages in Nizamabad and Jagitial districts are demanding release of water from SRSP to save their standing crops. But the state government, citing drinking water needs, refused to release water and this has led to a series of agitations.
The farmers, along with their family members, have decided to besiege the Sriramsagar project and carry out agitations in their villages in protest against the decision of the government.
Police promulgated prohibitory orders under section 144 in the villages and also deployed heavy forces in various villages in Mendora, Balkonda, Yergatla, Morthad and Kammarpally mandals. Due to the presence of armed police forces, few farmers have participated in the agitations.
Meanwhile, a group of farmers in Uploor village in Kammarpally mandal on Sunday tried to burn the effigy of Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao and take out a protest rally in the village.
Noticing it, the police dispersed the gathered farmers and permitted less than 15 members to submit a memorandum to the presiding deity in Sri Bala Raja Rajeshwara Swamy temple in Uploor village.