Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has alleged that the Centre is playing with the lives of farmers in the State by not lifting custom milled rice (CMR) for about 45 days now, resulting in piling up of huge paddy stocks with the millers and consequently their damage due to being kept in the open areas due to lack of storage space.
Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Rythu Bandhu Samithi (RBS) chairman Palla Rajeshwar Reddy, legislators M.S. Prabhakar Rao, Jajula Surender and Yegge Mallesham said they doubt whether Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy and BJP State president Bandi Sanjay were sons of the soil of Telangana as their actions were harming the interests of farmers, particularly those raising paddy.
They asked the two BJP leaders to recollect what they had spoken in November last — that of asking farmers to go for paddy cultivation itself when the State government was advising them against it due to Centre’s refusal to procure parboiled rice produced in the rabi season. The TRS leaders reminded the BJP leaders that they had assured the farming community of making Centre procure paddy.
