Screen grab of farmer Kondapalli Sharath's Facebook live.

HYDERABAD: A farmer from Mancherial, Sharath, who did a Facebook live about their family being deprived of their land by a local revenue official got help from chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao. KCR spoke to Sharath on his phone for five minutes after his post came to his knowledge on Wednesday.

Within half an hour, Mancherial district collector Bharati Hollikeri rushed to the residence of Sharath in Nandulapalli village in Nellela mandal and sorted out the matter. A Village Revenue Officer (VRO) Karunakar, and revenue inspector Peddiraju were suspended for changing the land records. Sharath said in his FB post that the seven acre land which was on his father Kondapalli Shankaraiah’s name was transferred on to another individual’s name in the village by the VRO.

After the issue was resolved with the intervention of the chief minister himself, Sharath said in an FB post that KCR understood the problems of farmers well and the country needs a leader like him.

Sharath had done the FB live from in front of the tahsildar’s office at Nellela on March 18 explaining his problem and how that the family was also not able to benefit from the government’s scheme for farmers only because their land had been illegally transferred on to another person’s records by the VRO. On his Facebook id ‘Mana vyavasayam mana pantalu mee rythu sharath’, he urged for KCR’s help in solving his issue as for the last 11 months, he had approached several officials, including the collector but they only responded saying that it will take time.

In the telephonic conversation with Sharath, KCR told him he had seen his post and the negative comments that were made against the government by those who were not aware of what all the government was doing. When KCR asked him to fax his complaint to him, Sharath informed him that he would have to go to Bellampally, which was 20 km away and do it. KCR then asked him to write a complaint on his FB and would take it from there and initiate action. “Officials will be at your doorstep in half an hour. You don’t have to go anywhere,” he told him.

KCR explained to Sharath about the plans he would implemented from June for resolving such issues. “Just like how you have complained about the problem, you also inform the public how you have got help through FB which you have used,” KCR advised him. Sharath did that and also spoke to the media about it.



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