TRS MPs, Ministers plan another visit to Delhi

To seek increase in quantity of raw rice being lifted

A delegation of TRS MPs and a half-a-dozen Ministers will leave for Delhi on Saturday to meet Union Ministers concerned and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to impress upon them on the need to increase the quantity of Kharif paddy procurement.

The decision was taken at a party meeting chaired by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Friday. The Ministers of Agriculture, Civil Supplies, Energy, Roads and Building, Transport and Panchayat Raj would go to Delhi along with the MPs.

Giving details to the media after the meeting, Minister for Agriculture Niranjan Reddy along with Minister G. Jagadish Reddy and V. Srinivas Goud and MP K. Keshava Rao said that their visit was necessitated as procurement of Kharif paddy had almost reached the quantity agreed upon by the Centre (Food Corporation of India) this year till Friday and more than half of paddy was yet to be harvested and reach procurement centres.