Farm laws won’t shut IKP centres: Kishan
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Farm laws won’t shut IKP centres: Kishan
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Hyderabad: Union minister of state for home G Kishan Reddy on Monday said the new farm laws do not entail closure of Indira Kranti Patham (IKP) centres, which act as procurement centres for paddy. Interacting with party leaders, he said the TRS government is laying the blame on the Centre unnecessarily on this issue. “Farm laws do not prescribe closure of the procurement centres. The opposition parties are making baseless charges on us,” he said. Appealing to the farmers, he said the new agri laws give more flexibility to them. “There is no need to panic,” he said. A few days ago, TPPC president N Uttam Kumar Reddy wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his appointment to seek clarity on closure of paddy procurement centres in Telangana. The TRS government has claimed that only those centres which were opened during Covid-19 have been closed. The BJP on Monday announced the candidatures of G Premender Reddy for the Nalgonda-Khammam- Warangal graduates MLC constituency and N Ramchander Rao for Hyderabad-Rangareddy-Mahbubnagar MLC constituency.
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The Times of India
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2021-02-16
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Hyderabad