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HYDERABAD
Working president of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) K.T. Rama Rao has demanded that the Telangana Government people a achromatic insubstantial connected the procurement of each Rabi crops made this twelvemonth truthful far. He alleged that not adjacent 35% of the full paddy produced has been procured truthful far, though the Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy claimed 80% was procured.
“We were expecting that the authorities would clasp a reappraisal gathering connected the paddy procurement, connected farmers who died portion waiting astatine the procurement centres, connected the heaps of the nutrient owed to heatwave conditions, bosom onslaught and distress”, helium said addressing a property league successful Hyderabad connected Friday (May 21, 2026). He claimed that implicit 10 farmers person died truthful far.
Reiterating immoderate details, helium stated that Md. Naseeruddin had collapsed connected his paddy heap astatine the procurement centre pursuing bosom nonaccomplishment astatine Nakrekal successful Nalgonda district; 4 farmers died successful Mancherial district, Venkateshwarlu successful Nekkonda, Warangal, territory and Shravan Kumar ended beingness owed to agelong hold successful procurement astatine Kolcharam successful Medak district.
A Congress activistic Ponnala Tirumalesh who was waiting for merchantability of 200 bags of paddy astatine a procurement centre for agelong staged a half-naked protest. Farmers protested successful Doultabad mandal of Kodangal constitutency.
The BRS person pointed retired that shortage of gunny sacks forced the farmers to bargain bags connected their ain by sparing ₹25 to ₹35 per bag, paying waiting charges of ₹2,000 to ₹3,000 per time for tractors and lorries for delays successful unloading paddy astatine procurement centres. He accused the authorities of wilfully delaying procurement truthful that farmers could edifice to distress merchantability astatine overmuch lesser price.
Further, helium noted that 6 kg to 8 kg was being deducted for each 100 kg of paddy successful the sanction of chaff and different wastage. He asked the authorities to amusement 80% procurement anyplace and if that is proven, BRS would apologise openly. The farmers were besides being made to instrumentality tarpaulin sheets connected prosecute to support paddy from unseasonal rains.
He demanded that the authorities procure discoloured and germinated paddy without immoderate restrictions. He alleged that some the Chief Minister and Civil Supplies Minister N. Uttam Kumar Reddy were misleading farmers and radical connected procurement and demanded ₹25 lakh ex-gratia outgo each to each farmers who died owed to delays successful procurement.
On the POCSO lawsuit registered against Union Minister Bandi Sanjay’s lad Bandi Bageerath, helium sought to cognize who hid the accused for 9 days.
