Telangana team leaves for Delhi to seek paddy procurement
A delegation of Telangana ministers on Tuesday left for Delhi to meet the Central food and public distribution minister Piyush Goyal to demand that the Centre procure entire paddy from the state during Rabi season even as the Union Minister alleged that the state government is not cooperating.
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Hyderabad: A delegation of Telangana ministers on Tuesday left for Delhi to meet the Central food and public distribution minister Piyush Goyal to demand that the Centre procure entire paddy from the state during Rabi season even as the Union Minister alleged that the state government is not cooperating.
A day after Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao made the demand, the ministerial delegation left for the national capital. Four ministers headed by minister for agriculture S Niranjan Reddy along with Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MPs will call on the central minister Goyal to procure the entire expected yield of 30 lakh tonnes during Rabi season. The Chief Minister has warned the Centre of a massive protest if it fails to buy the entire paddy from Telangana as is being done in the case of Punjab. He also demanded a uniform procurement policy for the entire country saying the Centre should not have different policies for different states.
Before leaving for Delhi, Niranjan Reddy told reporters that the Centre is buying entire paddy from Punjab at Minimum Support Price (MSP) and it should also procure the entire stock of paddy from Telangana at MSP.
