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Lok Satta demands Paddy Purchase Centres Atleast Two Per Mandal

-Welcomes Steps to Export Boiled Rice-

The Lok Satta Party today demanded that paddy purchase centers be opened on a large scale to drive away despair among farmers. In a statement Party Working President DVVS Varma wanted the government to open atleast two centers per mandal and purchase paddy at minimum support price.

Mr. Varma welcomed union minister Jaipal Reddy’s statement that government of India would take a positive decision on export of boiled rice in a couple of days. He recalled that the Lok Satta and the Farmers’ Federations laid importance on boiled rice export as rain-damaged paddy is suitable for conversion into boiled rice, which is not consumed within the state has a good market abroad.

Mr. Varma said that the government should permit atleast 30 lakh tons considering that the state already has stocks of 20 lakh tons of boiled rice.

Goingby past experience, the exchequer will not suffer any loss in the process. He hoped that the government of India would take a without further delay.

Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 20:05

Lok Satta Opposes Bandh

A mature and responsible political party should not inconvenience people by calling for bandhs and rasta rokos whatever be the cause or provocation, the Lok Satta Party said here today.

Commenting on the State wide bandh in the wake of the arrest of fasting TDP President and Opposition leader N. Chandrababu Naidu, Lok Satta Party leaders Katari Srinivasa Rao, P. Bhaskara Rao and P. Ravi Maruth said that the bandh would hurt the very farmers whose cause Mr. Chandrababu Naidu wanted to espouse. Farmers cannot move their produce to market yards or workers travel from place to place. Daily wage earners and small traders have to forgo their earnings. Dislocation in transport will result in denial of timely medical assistance to people in critical condition.

The Lok Satta Party appealed to all sections of people not to resort to destruction of property or violence.

The leaders reiterated the party view that focusing on the devastation caused by December 7 and 8 rains and seeking immediate relief would not serve the structural problems in the agrarian economy. The farmer should be enabled to sell his produce anywhere in the world so that he could withstand all natural vicissitudes.

The Lok Satta Party suggested that all parties unite transcending their differences to get both short-term and long-term problems of farmers resolved.

Monday, December 20, 2010 - 15:49

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