BC Welfare and Civil Supplies Minister Gangula Kamalakar, after holding a meeting with the MLAs and in-charge of the district constituency here on Wednesday, told the media that, against the anti-farmer attitude of the central government, farmers in Karimnagar district on Friday were sent to their respective areas. I have called for a strike. “Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao has introduced pro-farmer policies like 24 hours free electricity, growing farming, Rythu Bandhu, Rythu insurance. But the central government is conspiring against the state when Telangana is just emerging from financial crisis.
He said that Babasaheb Ambedkar had made agricultural laws and given the responsibility of buying crops to the Center. No state has the power to fix the minimum support price, set up an agency like FCI to buy and store and export agricultural products, he reminded. The state does not have the power to store or export even hundreds of kilos of rice. The government has only the power to provide water, electricity and investment.
He reminded that the Center had encouraged paddy cultivation in the past when there was a levy system. The minister said that he along with Union Minister Piyush Goyal met MAUD Minister KT Rama Rao and asked to procure 50 lakh metric tonnes of paddy. But the Union Minister said that they will take 20 lakh tonnes of paddy from the state itself. Kamalakar called upon the farmers to unite and fight against the policies of the central government. MLAs Rasmai Balkishan and Sunke Ravi Shankar, MLC Naradasu Lakshmana Rao, senior TRS leader Peddireddy and others were present.
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