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Former DGP of Telangana and All India Bahujan Samaj Party (AIBSP) nationalist coordinator J. Purnachandra Rao connected Sunday (February 08, 2026) called upon the displaced farmers of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (VSP) to motorboat a question to request compensation for their lands.
Speaking astatine the ‘Visakha Ukku Nirvasitula Praja Garjana’ held by Visakha Ukku Nirvasitula Ikya Sangham and Contract Labour Union here, Mr. Purnachandra Rao said that the farmers of 64 villages who gave 26,000 acres for VSP should not halt with staging dharnas and rastarokos but motorboat State-wide agitations wearing achromatic shirts. He said though the displaced persons were waiting for compensation for the past 35 years, the Centre and State governments are not responding.
He said that the ruling dispensations are not heeding to agitations similar dharnas and rastarokos by the displaced farmers, and asked that workers of each factories crossed the State should deterioration achromatic shirts arsenic a movement. He assured the VSP displaced radical of ineligible support. He besides demanded that the tribal farmers, displaced by the Polavaram task should beryllium fixed lands.
Visakha Ukku Nirvasitula Sangam main advisor Y. Mahadev, Rythu Sangams coordinator and erstwhile MP Vadde Shobanadeeswara Rao were among those who addressed the gathering.
