Continuing to increase pressure on the Union Government to procure paddy from Telangana during summer, leaders and activists of ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) under the leadership of Ministers held dharna before Collectorates across the State on Thursday. They raised slogans against the Centre.
TRS working president and IT and Municipal Administration Minister K.T. Rama Rao said that it was the responsibility of the Centre to procure paddy from the State. Participating in a dharna held before Sircilla Collectorate, Mr. Rama Rao said that they would be holding a protest in New Delhi on April 11 so that the pressure will be felt by the Union Government.
Exhibiting the placard ‘Centre should procure paddy from Telangana,’ Finance and Health Minister T. Harish Rao has participated in dharna before Collectorate at Siddipet. “In the past we have fought for Telangana. Now we are fighting for the farmers of Telangana. In the past every government has purchased paddy from the State and we are demanding to follow the same and it was genuine,” said Mr. Harish Rao, adding that farmers are being forced to be on road due to the anti-farmer policies of the Centre. A large number of farmers were present.
