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All India Kisan Morcha State Convenor and erstwhile Minister Vadde Shobhanadreeswara Rao connected Monday (February 23, 2026) launched a 30-hour indefinite hunger onslaught demanding justness for tenant farmers. He stated that tenant farmers signifier a large constituent of cultivation cultivation successful the State.
The protestation was organised nether the enactment of the NTR and Krishna territory committees of the A.P. Tenant Farmers’ Association.
Addressing the gathering, Mr. Shobhanadreeswara Rao demanded that ₹20,000 nether the Annadata Sukhibhava strategy beryllium extended to each tenant farmers. He besides called for the removal of the mandatory landowner’s signature request successful issuing tenant husbandman individuality cards and insisted that harvest loans, compensation for losses, and security benefits beryllium paid straight to tenant farmers.
A.P. Agricultural Workers’ Union wide caput V. Venkateswarlu alleged that Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu failed to fulfill pre-election promises of recognising tenant farmers, enacting a peculiar instrumentality for their protection, and extending payment schemes to them.
Senior person of the A.P. Farmers’ Association Y. Keshava Rao pointed retired that though the caller State Budget earmarked ₹52,000 crore for agriculture, determination was nary circumstantial notation of tenant farmers. He stressed the request for agreed struggles to safeguard their rights.
Tenant Farmers’ Association State wide caput Maganti Haribabu criticised the authorities for continuing policies it had opposed portion successful opposition, terming it “YSRCP 2.0.” Speakers warned that tiny and marginal farmers could gradually vanish if existent trends continue, with immense tracts of onshore allegedly being transferred to ample firm entities. They accused governments of facilitating specified shifts and condemned the usage of the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) against nationalist question activists portion allegedly offering extortion to exploitative forces.
