India election: 200 farmers enter the fray against Kavitha in Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency
Farmers protesting failure of government in ensuring minimum support price for crops
Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter and ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti candidate from Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency K Kavitha is facing a strange challenge.
Nearly 200 candidates, most of them farmers have filed their nominations In the constituency to highlight their problems at the national level.
The farmers said they have entered the fray to protest the failure of the government in ensuring minimum support price for their crops like turmeric and red gram while some of them were angry as TRS did not keep its promise of reopening closed sugar factory at Bodhan.
Responding to the novel protest by farmers Kavitha has asked them to file their nominations in Varanasi constituency against Prime Minister Narendra Modi as Central government had failed in ensuring the MSP for their crops.
Farmers in Bodhan were angry that the TRS has forgotten its promise of 2014 that they would reopen the sugar factory within 100 days of coming to power.
As the filing of nominations has come to an end on Monday evening, Nizamabad had the largest number of candidates in Telangana. As the electronic voting machine cannot accommodate so many names, ballot paper may have to be used in the constituency. The state election officials were in touch with the Election Commission officials on the issue.