Accusing the Center of being “anti-farmer”, the TRS on Tuesday announced that its MPs would boycott both the Houses of Parliament for the rest of the winter session and said it wants the BJP-led government to go. Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MPs staged a walkout from the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, raising slogans against the government and in support of farmers. Everyone wore black clothes.
Party leader Keshav Rao accused the Center of being insensitive to the demands of farmers, while asserting that the TRS is an opposition party, not a fencing party, and it wants this government to go. “This is an anti-farmer government, insensitive to the demands of farmers. Today, in Telangana, heaps of food grains are rotting on the roads because the FCI is not picking up the produce,” he said. Delegates prefer to boycott Parliament, but TRS is being forced to do so by the Centre.
“Please make it clear that we are against this government. We are an opposition party, not fencers, and we want this BJP-led government to go,” Keshav Rao said while interacting with reporters. remainder of the session. He said the party’s nine Lok Sabha MPs and seven Rajya Sabha MPs would not attend the rest of the session.
TRS has been raising the issue of procurement of paddy by the Food Corporation India (FCI) from Telangana, party leader in Lok Sabha Nama Nageswara Rao said, there was a refusal of farmers to raise this issue in Parliament. He said that for nine consecutive days, TRS gave notices to raise the issue in both the houses of Parliament, but they were not given a chance.
Nageswara Rao said that it is the responsibility of the Center to procure paddy from the southern state and give their due to the farmers, TRS demanded that a bill be introduced in Parliament for Minimum Support Price (MSP) on the crops.
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