Siddaramaiah who met with Shah late on Wednesday in New Delhi and discussed the issue of rice supply to the State told him that the Centre's policy was causing obstacles in supply of food for the poor, according to the Chief Minister's office.
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.
In an initiative to facilitate the distribution of 'fortified rice' to 15.05 crore beneficiaries of the Rice Fortification Scheme, covered under the National Food Security Act across Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath-led government has started allotting paddy to only those rice mills in the
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.
Speaking to the media at the BJP office on Monday, he said, "The Congress government did not make advance preparations to provide rice and now to cover up their failure, the state government is staging a politically motivated protest against the central government. The ministers are fixing t
"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.
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
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.
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