Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has accused Union Minister of Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal of insulting the people of Telangana by asking a delegation of Ministers and MPs that met him in New Delhi on Thursday to make people in the State practise consuming boiled rice or broken raw rice to overcome resolve rabi paddy procurement issue.
Speaking to newspersons here on Friday, Minister for Panchayat Raj and Rural Development Errabelli Dayakar Rao said it was due to pro-farmer policies being adopted by the TRS Government that the agriculture sector had transformed in Telangana encouraging even software professionals and engineers to take up farming and people who migrated to urban areas to go back to villages to engage in agriculture again.
He sought to know from the Union Minister whether the Centre had even an iota of role in the transformation of agriculture sector in Telangana and in case Mr. Goyal was willing to know first what Telangana Government had been doing to the farmers he must come for a debate on the issue in Hyderabad so that it could be decided who should consume broke rice and parboiled rice, Mr. Dayakar Rao suggested.
