‘Ministers, TRS MPs exposed BJP’s betrayal of TS farmers’
The Hindu
‘State Civil Supplies Corporation had written seven letters to FCI’
The efforts of Telangana Ministers and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MPs during their recent visit to Delhi on the issue of paddy procurement did not go waste as they have exposed the betrayal of Telangana farmers by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Government at the Centre, TRS leaders have said.
Speaking to reporters separately, Government Whip Balka Suman and Public Undertakings Committee (PUC) Chairman A. Jeevan Reddy said here on Saturday that both the Union Ministers and the State BJP leaders had been speaking lies continuously on the paddy/rice procurement in the State. They wondered how could Union Minister for Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal feign ignorance on several letters written by Telangana to Food Corporation of India (FCI) highlighting the delay in lifting custom milled rice pertaining to the last rabi season.
The State Civil Supplies Corporation had written seven letters to FCI on the problems of storage space and shortage of railway rakes. In spite of repeated requests made by Telangana for speeding up lifting of rice pertaining to last rabi, the Central and State BJP leaders were spreading misinformation.