Revanth Reddy moves adjournment motion

Hyderabad: AS announced during the 'Vari Deeksha' held in Hyderabad, Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) President and MP A Revanth Reddy has initiated the battle for paddy farmers in the national capital on Monday.

On the first day of the Monsoon session of Parliament, Revanth Reddy gave an adjournment motion notice to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking discussion on non-procurement of paddy by the Centre and State Government.

"I hereby give notice of my intention to ask for leave to move a motion for the adjournment of the business of the House for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent importance, namely: To discuss non-procurement of paddy by the Central and State governments owing to which paddy farmers are still waiting at their farm yards and procurement centres with lakhs of tonnes of unsold paddy. Following unseasonal rains, the paddy stocked up in many procurement centres, got soaked and started sprouting. But the government has turned a blind eye towards paddy farmers of Telangana," Revanth Reddy said in his Adjournment Motion notice. While addressing the two-day 'Vari Deeksha', Revanth Reddy had promised to wage a full-scale war against TRS and BJP Government to protect the interest of paddy farmers of Telangana. "While Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP Govt at the Centre tried to destroy the entire farm sector in the country through three black laws, Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao-led TRS Govt is crushing the farmers by ensuring non-procurement of their main produce, i.e., paddy," he alleged. Revanth Reddy explained that unlike other occupations, farming is not perennial. "The fate of farmers is decided by a single crop. The farmers put all their investments into one crop and their survival depends on the overall produce and the price they get for it in that particular season. The failure of crops, for whatever be the reason, the entire life of a farmer and his family gets destroyed. Farmers sometimes suffer huge losses due to natural disasters like drought or floods. But this time, lakhs of paddy farmers have become the target of Modi-KCR combine who want to crush their backbone by not procuring their produce," he alleged.