Hyderabad, Nov 15 (IANS): Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) Working President, K.T. Rama Rao and some other leaders on Friday called on farmers who are in jail for attacking Vikarabad District Collector
and other officials. A delegation of BRS leaders led by Rama Rao met the arrested farmers in Sangareddy Jail and expressed their solidarity with them. The BRS leaders assured them that the BRS would stand by them in their fight against the government’s plans to forcibly acquire lands for ‘Pharma Village’.
Vikarabad District Collector Prateek Jain and other officials were attacked by a group of villagers in Lagacharla on November 11 during a public hearing on the proposed pharma cluster. The incident in
Kodangal, the constituency of Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy, had created a sensation and triggered a war of words between the ruling Congress and Opposition BRS. The ruling party has alleged that BRS
leaders were involved in the conspiracy behind the attack on officials. They also accused the Opposition party of trying to stall the development works of the government
