Eatala urges Centre to rethink on farm laws
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Eatala urges Centre to rethink on farm laws
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Hyderabad: While chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao has remained silent on the ongoing farmers’ agitation, health minister Eatala Rajender has stirred up a hornet’s nest by urging the Centre to rethink on the farm laws. Asking the Centre to pay heed to the demands of the agitating farmers across India, he said that governments have a moral responsibility to protect the farming community. “Is it not the responsibility of the governments to look into reports submitted by Jayathi Ghosh and P Ramchandran Commission after several farmer suicides?” he said after dedicating a Rythu Vedika cluster in Huzurabad on Wednesday. Asserting that the farmers’ demands were genuine, he said it was legitimate to demand the government to implement the rates as fixed by the price fixation committee. “Why would farmers protest in cold weather? Farmers cannot sell their produce by going to another state. The Centre should think about all these issues,” he said. He said Telangana made giant strides in paddy production with Food Corporation of India buying more than 64 lakh tonnes from the state. “Earlier, we used to import wheat from US. Now, we are proud to export rice from our soil,” he said.
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The Times of India
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2021-02-04
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Hyderabad