Hyderabad: Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao will lead a protest on the paddy crisis against the BJP led centre in New Delhi on April 11. The protest, on the procurement of paddy, has been a bone of contention between the Centre and the TRS led state government.
A few media reports suggested that the chief minister’s protest is a ‘hunger strike’. However, TRS party sources, speaking to Siasat.com, denied the claim and clarified that it is just going to be a sit-in protest.
TRS working president KT Rama Rao (KTR) on Saturday informed that the party will organise a five-pronged protest against the centre’s attitude towards paddy procurement from Telangana.
“On April 4, protests will be conducted at all Mandal headquarters in the state. On April 6, TRS workers will conduct ‘Rasta roko’ on the National Highways leading to Mumbai, Nagpur, Bengaluru, and Vijaywada. On the 7th, protests will be held with lakhs of farmers at all district headquarters except Hyderabad,” said KTR.
He further said that April 8, will witness farmers hoisting a black flag across 12,769 panchayats in the state. Rallies will also be held. Effigies of the centre will be burnt. On April 11, TRS ministers and public representatives will hold protests and the party MPs will voice their opposition in Parliament.
KTR also questioned the Union government on whether they have a one-nation-one procurement policy across the country or not.
“We need a unified procurement policy across the country. “You (centre) procure paddy from Punjab and we asked whether you will do the same in Telangana or not. Why shouldn’t we have one nation one procurement just like one nation one ration?” he asked.
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