The BJP Telangana unit has accused the State government of calling for tenders to sell procured paddy for mobilising election funds, and said the millers have been given a raw deal with this decision on Monday.
BJP’s Nizamabad MP D.Aravind alleged at a press conference at the party office that Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao had “hatched a plan” to sell off rice by about ₹4-5 less a kg to corporates and thereby, “dubiously earn crores of rupees in commission”.
The MP explained that the government had placed stringent norms in the auction for the custom milling rice such as stipulating that the firms should have a ₹1,000-crore turnover with ₹100-crore profit. In the first phase, the government intends to auction about 25 lakh metric tonnes.
