TRS calls BJP leaders’ bluff

Centre urged to review its decision on procurement

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has suggested the State leaders of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) not indulge in petty politics causing confusion and loss to the farming community of Telangana even after the Centre acknowledged the fact that cultivation of paddy during the Kharif season was taken up in 62 lakh acres.

Minister for Agriculture S. Niranjan Reddy, speaking to reporters here on Saturday, requested the Centre again to review its decision on the procurement of Rabi paddy/rice considering the fact that about 22 crore population still lacked food security and that producing raw rice in Telangana during Rabi was most uneconomical due to extreme temperatures and high broken rice percentage.

Stating that no government in the country had come out unscathed after taking decisions against the farming community, Mr. Niranjan Reddy said North India was boiling with the farmers protests against the new farm laws but the sword was still dangling over the heads of farmers although the Supreme Court had kept the new laws in abeyance. He sought to know whether Centre could not spare some money when it was writing off ₹lakhs of crores of debt of corporates.