Unhappy with passage of AP decentralisation Bill, TDP demands discussion in council

The passage of the Bill saw heated exchanges in the Assembly and council between YSR Congress Party and TDP members.

TDP Guntur MP Galla Jayadev was arrested late last night for getting involved in a scuffle with the police. (Twitter/@ncbn)

Meanwhile, the protests by farmers in Amaravati entered the 35th day Tuesday even as the police cracked down on protesters with lathicharge at several places.

TDP Guntur MP Galla Jayadev was arrested late last night for getting involved in a scuffle with the police.

The Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy government has announced sops for the protesting landowners and farmers who gave up their land for capital development. “No injustice would be done to Amaravati farmers in our government,” Chief Minister Reddy said in the Assembly today.

The 10-year annuity term for compensation of Amaravati farmers will be extended to 15 years. As per the previous TDP government’s compensation package, landowners giving one acre of land would receive Rs 30,000 per acre per annum for non-irrigated and Rs 50,000 per acre per annum for irrigated lands for 10 years.

The YSRCP Congress Party has now increased the term from 10 to 15 years. “For the about 21,000 tenant farmer families in 29 villages of Amaravati who don’t have land, the pension has been increased to Rs 5,000 from the existing 2,500.