As election rhetoric has begun to rise in Telangana in the runup to the Assembly polls, the repeated statements of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, batting for landowning farmers have upset activists who support tenant farmers. KCR has repeatedly made it clear that his party, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), would stand by farmers but has refused to include tenant farmers, who account for about 30% of farmers in the state.
The facts that tenant farmers are not recognised by the Telangana government and that they are deprived of welfare scheme benefits have been points of contention for a long time
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