BJP poser to BJD on paddy buy

By Express News Service
BHUBANESWAR: With no finish to farmers’ protest over delay in paddy procurement and the 72 hour-deadline given by the get together to the State authorities to streamline the system over, the BJP on Monday stated its subsequent plan of action will probably be introduced quickly.

Launching a diatribe in opposition to the BJD authorities over gross irregularities in any respect mandis (paddy buy centres), BJP state president Samir Mohanty stated farmers have been left within the lurch. “The farmers are asking who is buying paddy, the government or millers? Why the government has left them at the mercy of rice millers who are ruling the roost at the mandis?” Mohanty requested.

Alleging a nexus between the federal government and the rice millers, Mohanty stated a deliberate try is being made to harass the farmers to promote their inventory to millers’ brokers under the minimal help value (MSP). “The ultimatum given by the BJP to the government on January 22 to streamline paddy procurement within 72 hour is over. The farmers are losing their patience with no firm assurance from the government to buy their paddy. We will decide our next course of action within a day or two,” Mohanty cautioned.

Posing 5 inquiries to Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, the state BJP president dared him to present the precise variety of beneficiaries beneath KALIA, the monetary help scheme for households engaged in agriculture actions, and the variety of instalments transferred.

With the BJD authorities attacking the Centre for not releasing the arrear and advance meals subsidy payments of the State amounting to `6,039 crore and fund shortage affecting paddy procurement, Mohanty stated the ruling get together didn’t hesitate to utilise cash from the Odisha Contingency Fund to beat the monetary disaster to satisfy price of KALIA scheme.

“Will the government take the same route to meet the fund requirement for paddy procurement?,” he requested.The Chief Minister should clarify the individuals why the variety of beneficiaries beneath Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana has come down from 38 lakh farmers who obtained the primary instalment to 9 lakh in the course of the disbursement of seventh instalment, he demanded.

The CM in his fifth time period is obligation certain to clarify to the individuals why his authorities didn’t create a minimal irrigation potential of 35 per cent in every block, Mohanty said.