As part of intensifying its struggle against the BJP government at the Centre on the issue of rabi/yasangi paddy procurement in the State, Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has decided to expose the double standards of the Centre and State BJP leaders on the issue by staging protests from gram panchayat level to Parliament from April 4 to 11.
Asking the farming community to partake in the protests stating that they are being organised by TRS on their behalf, working president of the party and Minister for IT, Industries and Municipal Administration K.T. Rama Rao said protest ‘deekshas’ would be held in all mandal centres on April 4 with a demand to the Centre to procure entire paddy produced this rabi season in the State. Party ranks, mandal-level elected representatives, legislators and others would participated in the protest.
TRS would stage protest road blockades on the Nagpur, Bengaluru, Mumbai and Vijayawada highways on April 6 and on April 7, besides, protests would be held at 32 district headquarter centres. On April 8, TRS ranks would burn effigies of the Centre in all the 12,769 gram panchayats, and request farmers to hoist black flags on their houses to express their discontentment with the Centre on the paddy procurement issue and to register protest against the insulting remarks made by Union Food and Public Distribution Minister Piyush Goyal.
