Procure Every Paddy Grain From Telangana Farmers: KCR's Daughter To Centre

The government should not create a situation of confrontation again with the farmers by refusing to purchase paddy, said Kalvakuntala Kavitha, who is also Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao's daughter.

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) Member of Legislative Council Kalvakuntala Kavitha attacked the Centre for going back on its promise of buying paddy from the farmers of Telangana. The government should not create a situation of confrontation again with the farmers by refusing to purchase paddy, said Ms Kavitha, who is also Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao's daughter.

"The central government is not procuring paddy from the farmers of Telangana, whereas, earlier the central government had promised that every grain of paddy would be fully procured. The BJP government at the Center has now refused the purchase, flouting the promise," she said.

About 61 lakh farmers of the state have taken to the streets in protest.

Former Member of Parliament Kavitha warned the Centre that if it did not pay attention to the feelings of the farmers of the state, they would be forced to agitate on the streets of Delhi. "The whole country knows that if the farmers, once again sit on the streets of Delhi, then the central government will have to bow down and eventually listen to the farmers," she said. She demanded that the way central government buys the entire paddy from Punjab, in the same way, as the entire paddy from the farmers of Telangana too.