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Harish Has No Gratitude, Says BJP

Harish Has No Gratitude, Says BJP

Bharatiya Janata Party has come down heavily on Telangana Marketing Minister T Harish Rao over his criticism against the Centre for announcing minimum support price (MSP) to the red chilli farmers.

“The TRS government has not taken a single step to procure chillies form farmers. Now, when the Centre announces some relief, Harish is criticising only to cover up the mistakes and failures of the TRS government,” alleged State BJP president Dr K Laxman.

He said Harish had no information about how much crop was coming to markets across the State.

The State government failed to provide minimum facilities to the farmers in market yards, he said and asked the government to tell what it would do in case all the produce to be purchased by the Centre.

He alleged that the Marketing Minister had no awareness regarding the price of chilli and hence the latter was saying that the price for chilli in markets was Rs 6,000 per quintal and the Centre decided Rs 5,000 per quintal. 

“Doesn’t the Minister know the fact that the farmers are agitating in the market yards as nobody purchasing chilli even at Rs 3,000 per quintal?” he asked and alleged that there was no comparison between the reality and the words of the Minister. 

Laxman said the Union Agriculture Minister S S Ahluvalia spoke to the officials concerned and decided to purchase the crops in markets through Market Intervention Scheme (MIS) immediately after meeting the State leaders Bandaru Dattatreya, P Muralidhar Rao and him.

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