Jana Sena Chief Pawan Kalyan responded again or let’s say signed a press note and it was merely for the sake of doing it. All the political parties are marching to Khammam Market Yard and Guntur Market Yard, but as always Jana Sena will not march but tweet. Jana Sena’s core principle seems to be compare and complain of BJP’s divide and rule policy. The lack of research in compiling the press note is visible.
To set the context, centre asked the state governments to buy the chilli at market intervention price(MIP) of rupees 5,000 per quintal till May 31 with an overhead charge of rupees 1,250. The State Agencies can procure maximum of 88,300 MTs of Red Chilli in Andhra Pradesh and 33,700 MTs in Telangana under the scheme. In Andhra Pradesh, Chilli production increased from 7.93 lakh MT last year to 9.22 lakh MT this year. In Telangana, against an average of 2 lakh metric tonnes every year, nearly 7 lakh MT of chilli has been produced in 2016-17.
Instead of talking in terms of minimum support price like TDP-TRS or all other parties, Jana Sena demanded the BJP government to treat both the states equally. They demanded 88300MT to be purchased from Telangana also. While Jana Sena was asking centre to understand that there are lakhs of MT of chilli, the numbers shown are evident that Jana Sena needs better research before publishing a note.
The centre said highest quality chilli needs to be procured, what about the low or medium quality chilli? Jana Sena said MSP should be increased but did not say how much? Telangana farmers are not fighting with Andhra farmers but both the farmers are fighting against the governments. Telangana farmers are taking their produce to Guntur Market Yard. Jana Sena should rather come out of it petty-minded thoughts. Instead of raising questions about BJP’s nepotism, it is worth pondering why Pawan Kalyan doesn’t want to “question” Chandrababu or KCR.
