CM KCR kickstarts day-long protest in Delhi, demanding for uniform food grain procurement policy

Hyderabad: Scaling up the fight against the Centre, TRS President and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Monday kickstarted the day-long protest demanding that the union government purchase entire paddy crop produced during the Yasangi (Rabi) season. The party is also demanding that the union government to announce a national uniform food grains procurement policy. […]

Hyderabad: Scaling up the fight against the Centre, TRS President and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Monday kickstarted the day-long protest demanding that the union government purchase entire paddy crop produced during the Yasangi (Rabi) season. The party is also demanding that the union government to announce a national uniform food grains procurement policy.

Prior to sitting in for the protest, the Chief Minister along with the Cabinet members paid tributes to the portraits of Dr BR Ambedkar and Mahatma Jyotirao Phule and the Telangana Martyrs Memorial installed at the venue. Bharatiya Kisan union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait and other farmers leaders also joined the protest in the national capital, supporting the cause.

The ‘Maha Dharna’ organised by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi at Telangana Bhavan, was attended by the entire Cabinet of Telangana along with TRS MPs, legislators and other elected representatives. TRS working president and Minister KT Rama
Rao who is participating in the demonstration, was sitting amid the party leaders off the main dais.

The TRS leaders including the Parliamentary Party leader K Keshava Rao, Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy, Rythu Bandhu Samithi Chairman Palla Rajeshwar Reddy and others addressed the gathering on the occasion. The Chief Minister will address the nation to expose the double standards and anti-farmer policies of the BJP government at the Centre. He is also expected to announce his action plan against the Centre, if it does not respond to the farmers’ demand.

Meanwhile, the surroundings of Telangana Bhavan have turned pink with the streets of the national capital adorned with the flex boards and cut-outs of K Chandrashekhar Rao, KT Rama Rao, Ministers and others apart from the TRS flags. The massive hoardings of Chief Minister Chandrashekar Rao have been put up on the streets of Delhi demanding for a uniform national policy for food grains procurement. More than 150 hoardings are said to have been installed near the Parliament with punchlines like ‘One nation and one paddy procurement policy’ and ‘the Central government must safeguard the passion of the farmers’. The slogans on posters questioning the Centre’s discriminatory policy against the state of Telangana and its farmers posters were written in both in English and Hindi.

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