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HYDERABAD
The Telangana Legislative Assembly connected Monday adopted 2 resolutions unopposed — 1 condemning the ongoing Middle East warfare betwixt Israel/US and Iran and requesting the Centre to instrumentality inaugural to halt the warfare and different requesting the Centre to prohibition paraquat dichloride, a weedicide/herbicide, that is claiming the lives of a fig of farmers and workplace workers.
Moving the solution condemning the Middle East war, Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka expressed fearfulness that if continued the ongoing warfare could pb to the Third World War. He stated that the fallout of the West Asia warfare was lone connected that peculiar portion but connected the full satellite arsenic it was creating immense problems successful getting imports of petroleum and different products to galore countries and impacting their economies.
Thousands of people, including women and children, had already died successful the warfare arsenic the 2 sides were resorting to attacking and dropping missiles/bombs connected schools and destitute homes too different installations. Members of BJP wanted an accidental to talk connected the solution but the Chair did not let them.
Minister for Agriculture Tummala Nageswara Rao moved the solution requesting the Centre to enforce a prohibition instantly connected manufacturing, import, retention and merchantability of ‘paraquat dichloride’, a herbicide being wide utilized by the farming assemblage to power weeds. He stated that it was claiming the lives of a ample fig of farmers and farmworkers each twelvemonth and it was already banned successful astir 70 countries.
Member Kadiyam Srihari said 98% of those who had consumed the herbicide either accidentally oregon intentionally successful a acceptable of emotion owed to distress oregon different reasons had succumbed arsenic the chances of endurance aft consuming it were precise distant since determination was nary antidote for it. About 2,000 farmers and farmworkers were dying each twelvemonth by consuming the weedicide.
Mr. Srihari and a fewer different members of the Congress suggested the State authorities to prohibition it arsenic Odisha and Kerala did since the States person powers to prohibition it for 60 to 90 days and widen it each clip till the Centre bans it. Several different members besides spoke connected the solution and explained the adverse interaction of the herbicide connected the society.
