Hyderabad:  Telangana CM KCR will send a delegation of Ministers and MPs belongs to TRS for Delhi on Saturday to urge the Centre for paddy procurement in the State during ongoing Kharif season.

The delegation will comprise Niranjan Reddy, Gangula Kamalakar, Prashant Reddy, Jagadish Reddy, E. Dayakar Rao, P. Ajay Kumar and TRS MPs. He said they have sought appointment with Union Ministers and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Agriculture Minister S. Niranjan Reddy said the State has procured nearly 60 lakh tonnes of paddy from farmers as per the target given by the Centre. Since there are more paddies to be procured, the delegation will request the Centre to revise the target.

The meeting chaired by CM KCR on Thursday in Pragathi Bhavan decided to stage protests in villages on December 20^th against the anti-farmer policies of the BJP Government at the Centre.  Niranjan Reddy said that the TRS MPs fought with sincerity over the paddy procurement issue both inside and outside the Parliament and alleged that the Centre responded to the protest in a disrespectful manner.

The Agriculture Minister alleged that the Central ministers also uttered lies in Parliament. He recalled that the Centre had promised to procure the entire paddy but now had gone back on its word. He said though the FCI, warehouses, and trains all are under the control of the Centre it was blaming the state for not sending the paddy.