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State BJP president Nainar Nagenthran connected Saturday said the DMK authorities should beryllium held liable for the fiasco successful procurement of paddy from delta farmers.
Speaking to reporters present aft participating successful a State-level gathering connected the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls, helium said the State authorities should person made each indispensable arrangements good successful beforehand to procure paddy instantly aft the harvest. It was the work of the authorities machinery to gully up a program by considering the kuruvai cultivation country and expected clip of harvest. But it had failed to enactment indispensable infrastructure successful place, helium charged.
Asked astir the DMK’s accusation that the Centre had betrayed the delta farmers by refusing to summation the permissible moisture contented for paddy procurement from 17% to 22%, Mr. Nagenthran said the Centre could not beryllium held liable for it. “The State authorities spent ₹10 crore to procure method instruments for predicting the rainfall pattern. However, it could not marque usage of them. Moreover, it did not person capable warehouses to store paddy. By the clip the procurement thrust was stepped up, the harvested paddy got drenched successful the rain, thereby expanding its moisture content. It was the nonaccomplishment of the State government. The Union authorities was successful nary mode liable for it,” Mr. Nagenthran alleged. He besides claimed that farmers had been forced to wage a bribe of ₹40 per container of paddy procurement.
The BJP person said the DMK authorities had wasted 4.5 years of its regularisation by uncovering responsibility with the schemes and programmes being implemented by the Centre. The DMK had done thing factual for people’s payment but summation taxes. Chief Miniser M.K. Stalin devoted his clip and vigor lone to marque his lad Udayanidhi the Chief Minister, helium alleged.
BJP nationalist wide caput Tarun Chugh, erstwhile State presidents, K. Annamalai, Pon. Radhakrishnan, and Tamilisai Soundarrajan and others participated successful the meeting.
