Displaced farmers in Andhra contesting to highlight their plight

  • 13/04/2009

  • Business Standard (New Delhi)

CH Prashanth Reddy / Hyderabad April 14, 2009, 0:47 IST They are displaced farmers and they know that their chance of getting elected is very remote. Yet, they have entered the electoral fray. As many as 15 farmers of Polepally village in the backward Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh have filed their nomination for the Mahabubnagar Lok Sabha constituency as independent candidates for the coming general elections. Their purpose is to draw people