Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) president A. Revanth Reddy has alleged that Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has been playing political drama in the name of dharna at New Delhi and wondered how the Chief Minister had given an undertaking to the Centre that State would not supply parboiled rice.
Mr. Revanth Reddy posed 10 questions to the Chief Minister on Monday and asked the rationale behind holding dharna at New Delhi demanding Centre to procure paddy while giving a letter to Centre on October 4, 2021, stating that parboiled rice would not be supplied. “Who has given you a right to furnish a letter to the Centre that parboiled rice would not be supplied? How can you play with the lives of farming community?” he asked.
Referring to the statement made by the Chief Minister in February 2021 that the State had incurred a loss of ₹7,500 crore due to paddy procurement and the government would not be setting up any more procurement centres, the TPCC president said that it appears that the idea of not procuring paddy had already taken shape then itself.
