BJP not giving clarity on Rabi procurement: TRS

Centre must come clear on actual procurement, say ministers

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has accused the State leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), including a Union Minister, of creating confusion among the farming community on the issue of paddy cultivation in the Rabi (Yasangi) season by not giving clarity on the procurement of rice produced in the season by the Centre.

When the State government is trying to give clarity by explaining the farmers about the refusal of Food Corporation of India (FCI) to procure boiled rice from this Rabi season, the BJP leaders have been hiding facts about the boiled rice procurement and asking farmers to go for paddy stating that they would make the State government procure it, ministers S. Niranjan Reddy and G. Kamalakar have said.

Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, they sought to know whether they were not aware of the fact that the FCI had taken in writing from the State government (Civil Supplies Corporation), on the directions from the Ministry of Food and Public Distribution, in the middle of the procurement of rice produced in the last Rabi season that State would not be given boiled rice quota henceforth.