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Harish comes under BJP fire
Condemning Marketing Minister T Harish Rao’s criticism against the Centre, the BJP alleged that the State government totally failed to extend minimum support price (MSP) to the farmers and it was criticising the Centre only to cover up its mistakes and failures.
Hyderabad: Condemning Marketing Minister T Harish Rao’s criticism against the Centre, the BJP alleged that the State government totally failed to extend minimum support price (MSP) to the farmers and it was criticising the Centre only to cover up its mistakes and failures.
In a press note issued here on Thursday, State BJP president Dr K Laxman alleged that the Marketing Minister 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.
Pointing out that the Minister was speaking forgetting the fact that the Centre helped in constructing godowns, Laxman said the State government failed to provide minimum facilities to the farmers in markets. “The conditions in markets are bad.
One can understand the condition of markets across the State if one examines the market yard of the Minister’s constituency,” he said. 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.
He alleged that the Marketing Minister had the time to supervise the Warangal meeting arrangements but he did not have time to visit market yards. The TRS government had interest in Wallmart but it did not have interest in farmers, the BJP leader said.
Asking the State government to explain what steps it had taken in extending help to farmers, the BJP State president demanded that the Minister tell where godowns, cold storages and Rythu Bandhu Scheme had gone.
