Congress bike rally, BRS protest meeting create tension in Siddipet, Telangana
New Indian ExpressSIDDIPET: Two events, one by the ruling Congress to celebrate the implementation of the farm loan waiver scheme and the other by the Opposition to target the government for “not extending” the benefits to all farmers — organised in Siddipet created tension among the people and kept police on tenterhooks on Tuesday. Even as the Congress was organising a bike rally in the town to express gratitude to the state government and Chief Minister Revanth Reddy for waiving farm loans up to Rs 2 lakh by August 15 as promised, the BRS leaders conducted a meeting at the MLA camp office in protest against the government “cheating” the farmers. Meanwhile, Congress leader and former MLA Mynampally Hanumantha Rao addressing the press during the bike rally said: “Chief Minister Revanth Reddy has kept the promise made to the farmers by waiving their loans up to Rs 2 lakh.” He also demanded that BRS leader T Harish Rao, who has been criticising the Congress government over the issue, should resign as Siddipet MLA. He also accused Harish Rao of provoking BRS workers to attack the Congress activists and throw chilly power at them during the bike rally.
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