The CPI (M) Andhra Pradesh State Committee has demanded that the State government to take steps to promulgate the ordinance on tenant farmers without any further delay.
The party's State secretariat, which met in Hyderabad on Monday, expressed concern that the government was yet to bring in the ordinance aimed at protecting the interest of lakhs of tenant farmers in spite of its repeated assurances. The Congress which showed keenness on passing Bill hiking salaries of the legislators did not evince the same interest on the “Land Licensed Cultivators Bill”, which was introduced in the Assembly. Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy, however, assured on March 31 that an ordinance would be promulgated, but no steps had been initiated in that direction so far and this was giving scope for apprehensions over the government's commitment on the issue. The agriculture season had commenced and tenant farmers should make arrangements for seeds, fertilisers and other inputs before the month-end. The CPI (M) demanded that the government take steps to issue identity cards at the earliest to tenant farmers so that they could secure loans from banks. The party urged the government to scrap the GO 177 altogether as keeping it in abeyance would not serve the purpose.
(Courtesy : The Hindu)
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