Bhubaneswar: At the peak of the campaign for the Three Level Panchayat polls in the state, BJD who ruled on Tuesday raised bets against the NDA government led by BJP for the “non-evacuation” surplus of rice parboiling from Odisha by Food Corporation from India (FCI).
Hundreds of party workers held Dharna in front of the FCI regional office, demanding direct evacuation from the Grain surplus from the country.
The party accused that the FCI did not lift more than 22-lakh matrus parboiled rice from Odisha.
“When we approached the Minister of Food Union Piyush in this case, he assured us that this problem would be resolved.
But nothing happened so far.
More than 20-lakh MT surplus of parboiled rice has not been evacuated by the FCI.
This affects our farmer’s interest in .
The silence of the center of this issue also proves that the BJP government is against farmers, “said BJD Rajya Sabha Member Munna Khan.
He added that members of the BJP parliament from the country must also rise above the politics of the party and emphasize the center to elevate the field of surplus from the country in the Western District, where the Saffron Party has a good saffron in the election of 2017.Arenel, the ruling party has raised this problem several times in parliament.
MPS BJD has also spoken with Food Minister of Union in New Delhi.
The Union Minister has previously clarified that the FCI will raise parboiled rice from Odisha only when there is a request in other countries.
Hit back on the ruling party, President of the State Unit BJP Samir Mohanty said: “Before accusing, not lifting a parboiled rice surplus from the country, the government must buy rice from all farmers and ensure that they get the minimum support price set by the middle.”
BJD Intensifies Protests on Procurement of Parboiled Rice
