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The Telangana BJP connected Friday alleged that the State authorities was allowing a atom procurement mafia to operate, claiming amerciable deductions and collections from farmers to the tune of ₹4,000 crore.
Addressing a property league connected Friday, BJP Legislature Party person A. Maheshwar Reddy said atom millers were arbitrarily cutting 2-4 kg per container nether the pretext of prime oregon value deductions, resulting successful losses of up to 10 kg per quintal for farmers. Despite the Centre releasing beforehand funds for procurement, gunny bags, transportation, and labour charges, the authorities was forcibly collecting ₹75-₹80 per container straight from farmers, helium charged.
Warning of intensified protests, Mr. Reddy said the BJP would soon unveil a associated enactment program if the authorities fails to procure each atom lying astatine procurement centres by June 1 arsenic lone “partial” quantities of paddy, soybeans, maize, sorghum, chickpeas, and sunflower were being purchased.
“There is nary question of letting the authorities disconnected the hook. Wherever we went, we witnessed first-hand the terrible hardships faced by farmers, galore of whom are forced to defender their nutrient successful the scorching prima on with their families,” helium said.
Narrating the experiecnes during the ‘Farmers-Distress, BJP Assurance’ tour, launched 5 days agone successful Chevella and Pargi constituencies, Mr. Reddy said farmers were successful heavy distress aft unseasonal rains damaged harvested grain, causing it to sprout. He said galore were incapable to adust oregon support their produce, leaving them with mounting losses.
With the adjacent cropping play approaching, farmers are incapable to instrumentality to fieldwork arsenic their nutrient remains unsold, helium added. He besides criticised Ministers Tummala Nageswara Rao, Bhatti Vikramarka, and Ponnam Prabhakar, accusing them of making uninformed statements.
It is “ludicrous” to property shortages of gunny bags to governmental developments successful Bangladesh oregon diesel proviso issues linked to the West Asia conflict, alternatively of blaming mediocre coordination among State departments. He challenged the Ministers to an unfastened statement connected procurement figures, claiming helium had grounds to exposure “abysmal failures” successful the system.
He further alleged that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy and Irrigation Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy were making mendacious statements astir 80% procurement completion erstwhile lone astir 45 lakh metric tonnes was done. The authorities began to enactment lone aft the BJP’s tract visits and questioned wherefore specified urgency was missing earlier.
