A.P. Rythu Sangham demands new law to protect tenant farmers

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The Andhra Pradesh Rythu Sangham connected Friday (January 02, 2025) urged the State authorities to instantly enact a caller instrumentality to support the interests of tenant farmers and to guarantee the implementation of promised fiscal assistance schemes. 

The request was raised by Sangham’s territory caput K. Srinivas astatine a gathering of temple onshore tenant farmers present connected Friday. The gathering focused connected the problems faced by tenant farmers, peculiarly those cultivating temple and inam lands. 

Addressing the gathering, Mr. Srinivas criticised the authorities for failing to fulfil its committedness of introducing a caller tenant farmers’ instrumentality aft repealing the 2019 Cultivators’ Rights Act. He said the hold was unjustified and had near thousands of tenant farmers without ineligible protection. 

He demanded that each tenant farmers beryllium issued individuality cards nether the projected instrumentality and they beryllium made eligible for Annadata Sukhibhava concern assistance. He alleged that denying fiscal enactment to tenant farmers, who incur dense debts to cultivate crops, was discriminatory. The government, helium said, should instantly widen an assistance of ₹20,000 to each tenant farmer.

He besides demanded that tenant farmers cultivating temple lands beryllium issued lease individuality cards to alteration them to entree harvest loans, compensation, and authorities payment schemes. Referring to Mudinepalli mandal’s Vadali village, helium called for the extortion of the rights of work inam onshore tenant farmers and contiguous issuance of individuality cards to them.

The Sangham warned that it would intensify its agitation if the authorities failed to respond promptly to the issues raised by tenant farmers.

Several husbandman leaders, including Anagani Srirammurthy, Palli Sridhar, Kunchala Bullibabu, Korikani Venkateswara Rao, Bendu Paparao, Velamala Rambabu, and Mungata Nagavaraprasad, attended the meeting.

Published - January 02, 2026 06:56 p.m. IST

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