Naidu vows to fight for the cause of weavers

[caption id="attachment_7456" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu participating in ‘mahadharna' at Epurupalem near Chirala on Monday"][/caption]

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He leads ‘mahadharna' at Epurupalem

The TDP chief expresses solidarity with weavers

He promises free power supply to weavers

CHIRALA: Telugu Desam Party president N. Chandrababu Naidu on Monday asserted that his party would step up agitation in support of handloom weavers who were being ‘neglected' by the government.

Leading a ‘mahadharna' in front of the Epurupalem Panchayat office near here after consoling the family members of handloom weavers who had ended their lives or died of starvation, he promised weavers to come out with a special package as and when the party was voted to power. The former Chief Minister also promised free power to weavers. Expressing solidarity with the handloom weavers, he said the TDP would be with you in the fight to press for loan waiver and subsidised yarn to eke out a living. He gave a call to the party cadre to stage state-wide demonstrations in all handloom weaving centres. The TDP would be with weavers in pressing for waiver of even private loans secured by weavers as the same constituted over 95 per cent of their total debt, he said.

Referring to the sub-committee formed during the Rajasekhara Reddy regime under the chairmanship of the then Finance Minister K Rosaiah to address the issues concerning the handloom sector, he said it was unfortunate that Mr. Rosaiah after becoming the Chief Minister had failed to address the weavers' problems.

He distributed Rs. 10,000 each to 10 families of handloom weavers who had died and to five families of construction workers who had died in stampede in Sabarimala last month.

‘Rythu kosam'

Later, launching the ‘rythu kosam' yatra in Karamchedu in the evening, he promised to fight for farmers to get a remunerative price for their produce. Farmer leaders explained to Mr. Naidu their woes as his ‘yatra' reached the native place of Congress MLA Dagubatti Venkateswara Rao.

Farmers in Karamchedu explained to the TDP leader that they were facing a peculiar problem of plenty of accumulated paddy stocks in their ‘puris' (traditional storage containers) in the last couple of years with the price in the market of Nellore variety of paddy dipping to as low as Rs. 700 per bag of 75 kg.