KCR meets Dharavat Narsimha of Erkaram, farmer whose viral video exposed agrarian crisis

BHUVANAGIRI: Dharavat Narsimga of Erkaram finally met his favourite leader K Chandrashekar Rao on Thursday when the latter made a point to meet his farmer friend en route Bhuvanagiri.

Last month, the video of Dharavat Narsimha in Erkaram of Dubba Thanda of Suryapet district went viral on social media. He could be seen asking how he should repay the shop owner who sold him fertilisers, and pesticides, the man who sold seeds and other inputs, and how could he pay the owner from whom he hired machinery when crops on all five acres had dried up? "Is suicide my only option?" the farmer said in that video.

KCR consoled Narsimha and encouraged him to fight and not to surrender in despair. “We will fight for the farmers and force the Congress Government to give you irrigation, loan waiver, and bonus,” KCR said.