Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has alleged that the BJP-led Government at the Centre has been victimising Telangana with the fear that it would overtake Gujarat in economic growth and other development indicators and creating hurdles to paddy procurement is part of such victimisation.
Speaking to newspersons here on Sunday, Government Whip Balka Suman and legislators Methuku Anand and Yegge Mallesham said instead of playing an elder brother role in paddy procurement the Centre was acting as a villain. State BJP leaders, particularly president Bandi Sanjay, were justifying the insulting comments made by Union Minister of Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal during his meeting with four Telangana Ministers the other day.
Instead of condemning the Union Minister’s comments asking the Telangana Ministers to make Telangana people consume broken or parboiled rice, when the Ministers told Mr. Goyal that it was only parboiled rice that could be processed in Telangana during the rabi season and if milled as raw rice it would mostly end up as broken grain, Mr. Sanjay was seeking video proof of Mr. Goyal’s insulting words.
