K Chandrashekar Rao's BRS to hold march in Parbhani to demand annual aid for farmers in Maharashtra

K Chandrasekhar Rao. File Pic

The Hyderabad-headquartered Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) said on Friday that it would take out a march in Maharashtra's Parbhani on August 22 to demand an annual aid of Rs 10,000 per acre for farmers in the western state, according to the PTI.

The demand is based on the recommendation made in a report by Sunil Kendrekar, former divisional commissioner of the Marathwada region in Maharashtra that comprises eight districts, including Parbhani, said BRS' 'kisan' cell state head Manik Kadam, reported the PTI.

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Former divisional commissioner Sunil Kendrekar did a wide survey through various government agencies and concluded that farmers should be given an aid of Rs 10,000 per acre before the start of the sowing season, said Kadam.

However, the government has rejected the recommendation, said Kadam, whose party is led by Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao.

We will urge the Maharashtra government to implement the report and the recommendations of Kendrekar, who submitted them before he took voluntary retirement last month, he said.

On August 22, the march will start at 1 pm from Bazaar Maidan to the district collector's office in Parbhani, said Kadam, adding that they have appealed to farmers to join it.

Rao, who is popularly known as KCR, is trying to spread his party's base in Maharashtra.

On August 1, Rao visited noted Marathi poet and social reformer Annabhau Sathe's memorial at Wategaon in Sangli district and said he would write to Prime

Minister Narendra Modi to confer Bharat Ratna, the country's highest civilian award, on Sathe.

Rao had also visited Solapur last month.

Meanwhile, in May, the BRS had began its drive to form party committees in Maharashtra, where it plans to expand as part of the move to go beyond the confines of its traditional stronghold Telangana, the PTI reported.

The BRS had, in December last year, changed its name from Telangana Rashtra Samithi to Bharat Rashtra Samithi to underline its intention of becoming a national party.

KCR had earlier also held rallies in parts of Maharashtra including Nanded recently, and had slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre and the one here under Eknath Shinde for neglecting farmers and the downtrodden, reported the PTI.

(with PTI inputs)