Hyderabad:  Telangana CM K Chandra Sekhar Rao announced dharnas on Thursday at Indira Park in protest of demanding the Centre to make its stand clear on paddy procurement. Speaking at the media conference KCR said that all Ministers, MLAs, MPs, MLCs and other elected representatives of TRS will stage a dharna at Indira Park in Hyderabad on November 18^th.

After the meeting with TRS leaders and cadre he said that TRS will be after BJP which is adopting dual policy on the issue of paddy procurement. He said he would write to Modi and the Union Agriculture Minister on Wednesday, demanding the Centre to procure paddy from Telangana during the coming Rabi season.

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He said the Centre should procure paddy from Telangana the way it is doing from Punjab. You can’t have one policy for one region and another for a different region. State Government had been waiting for 50 days but the Centre has not made its stand clear. Referring to the earlier stand by the Centre that it will not procure parboiled rice from Telangana, Centre should clarify the quantity of raw rice it will procure from the State, he said.

BJP’s State President Bandi Sanjay created confusion among farmers by asking them to grow paddy and not to worry about selling it. KCR slammed Sanjay for his visit to paddy procurement centers and for what he called attacks on farmers. He alleged that the BJP leader was creating law and order problems. He claimed that those protesting against his visit were not TRS workers but were farmers.