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Telangana Transport Minister Ponnam Prabhakar accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of “breaking the backbone of communal people” done rising petrol and diesel prices portion simultaneously conducting “deceptive governmental yatras” successful the sanction of farmers.
Reacting to the Telangana BJP’s “Rythu Gosa – BJP Bharosa” yatras, the curate said the Centre was attempting to divert nationalist attraction from pressing issues faced by farmers and the communal man. He alleged that if the BJP genuinely cared astir Telangana farmers, it should archetypal trim substance prices, which person drastically accrued cultivation costs.
Increase successful cultivation costs
Mr. Prabhakar said farmers were reeling nether the load of escalating diesel and petrol prices, which person sharply accrued expenses related to tractors, irrigation motors and transportation. “The BJP leaders who talk astir husbandman payment are remaining soundless connected the contented of substance prices that straight impact cultivation operations,” helium remarked.
Paddy procurement issues
The curate besides accused the Centre of failing to afloat procure paddy cultivated by Telangana farmers. He alleged that the Union authorities was not cooperating successful sanctioning boiled atom procurement and granting approvals for levy atom contempt repeated requests from the State government.
According to the minister, the Centre approved procurement of lone 53.73 lakh metric tonnes of paddy, portion the Telangana government had acceptable a people of procuring 75 lakh metric tonnes to support farmers from distress.
Highlighting the State government’s efforts, Mr. Prabhakar said Telangana had established 8,575 paddy procurement centres crossed the State and was purchasing 8.5 lakh metric tonnes of paddy waiting astatine procurement centres connected a warfare footing. He added that 21 crore gunny bags had been made disposable astatine the tract level to debar inconvenience to farmers.
The curate said that the authorities had truthful acold procured 51 lakh metric tonnes of paddy and deposited ₹8,749 crore towards Minimum Support Price straight into farmers’ slope accounts.
Targeting the BJP implicit its predetermination promises, helium said the enactment had failed to fulfil assurances of doubling farmers’ incomes and providing monthly pensions to farmers supra 60 years of age.
Referring to the arguable workplace laws, Mr. Prabhakar alleged that BJP policies had caused terrible hardships to farmers nationwide and claimed that implicit 700 farmers had mislaid their lives during the agitation against the laws.
Calling the summation of MSP for maize by lone ₹10 per quintal “shameful”, helium demanded an apology from the Central authorities to maize farmers.
