TRS Govt Protests in Delhi Against Centre Demanding Paddy Procurement Policy; Telangana CM and Rakesh Tikait in Attendance : #RashtraNews
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The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government on Monday set up the stage in New Delhi to scale up its fight against the Centre demanding that the government purchase paddy produced in the rabi season. Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) and BKU leader Rakesh Tikait have also joined the protest at the Telangana Bhavan in the national capital.
The ‘Maha Dharna’ is also being attended by state ministers, MPs, MLAs, MLCs and other public representatives. KT Rama Rao, son of KCR, was also seen sitting at the protest at the Telangana Bhavan against the ‘discriminatory’ paddy procurement policy.
The TRS has put up hoardings in the national capital demanding that there should be one paddy procurement policy in the country, party sources said. Alleging that the BJP-led NDA government discriminated against Telangana, TRS has taken up a series of protests, including road blockades, for nearly a week.
The protests by TRS came amid a row and a war of words between the TRS and BJP over paddy procurement in the state. While the TRS government has been demanding that the Centre procure paddy, the Centre has said it would buy raw rice.
The Telangana government had given in writing that it will not supply parboiled rice but raw rice to the Food Corporation of India (FCI), Union Food Minister Piyush Goyal had said recently. Alleging that TRS is enacting a drama by holding protests in the name of paddy procurement to divert public attention from its recent hike in electricity charges, BJP MLA Raja Singh has recently said the state government should take steps to procure paddy from farmers to supply raw rice to the Centre as per the agreement.
Meanwhile, state BJP president and MP Bandi Sanjay Kumar on Saturday alleged that the TRS government’s “politicking on paddy procurement” smacks of a large-scale conspiracy to help middlemen make hundreds of crores and diverting the anger of farmers towards the Centre. In an open letter to the farming community in the state, Sanjay Kumar alleged that by closing down paddy procurement centres during rabi season, the Telangana government was creating an inevitable situation for the farmers to sell their produce to middlemen at a much lower rate than the minimum support price (MSP).
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