He said that after the Congress-led government announced the implementation of the Scheme in the state on June 2, the Centre asked the FCI to ban the sale of rice to the states.
The BJP staged a protest against Congress government in the state to counter its demonstration which was held against the Centre for not "providing" rice to the state and joined by Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar and many congress workers.
"We have asked the central government to buy the rice required to be distributed to the poor of the state under the Anna Bhagya Yojana. But they are doing politics in this too. BJP is showing its anti-poor attitude through this," MB Patil said.
Sutherland scored 116 (138) and Phoebe Litchfield, who is expected to start for Australia in next week's Test at Trent Bridge, also contributed in the middle, scoring 68.
Reacting to Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's allegations that the Centre asked FCI to stop the direct sale of rice to states after the Congress government requested for additional sale of rice from the Corporation for its ambitious Anna Bhagya programme, Bengaluru South MP Tejasvi Sur
Reacting to the arrest of Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party state secretary SG Suryah, over his tweet critical of Madurai MP and CPI Councillor, party State president K Annamalai on Saturday said that "there was nothing offending in the tweet".
Over 100 exhibitors, including Google, UNICEF, NSDC, NCERT, National Book Trust, Indian Knowledge Systems Division (IKS), startup initiatives and all State Governments participated in the exhibition.
Tamil Nadu state BJP president K. Annamalai condemned the incident saying that Surya's only mistake was to expose the nasty double standards of the communists, allies of DMK
Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivakumar on Friday, announced a protest on June 20 against the BJP-led central government across the state for centre allegedly discontinuing the sale of rice to state to scuttle the government's 'Anna Bhagya' guarantee scheme providing free rice.
"Tamil Nadu CM fully knows that he is in the dock if CBI registers a preliminary inquiry. That is why, in panic mode, he has withdrawn the general consent given to CBI," Annamalai said.