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Procurement agencies stage protest in Kuttanad

Staff Reporter

Council leaders to go on indefinite fast

ALAPPUZHA: The Action Council of Paddy Procurement Agencies in Kuttanad on Saturday organised a mock funeral procession carrying paddy from Mampuzhakkary to Ramankary in protest against the `refusal of the State Civil Supplies Corporation to buy paddy procured by 88 agencies from farmers.'

While the farmers and members of the action council who participated in the procession carried coffins carrying paddy, a band played songs of mourning. The participants held a meeting at Ramankary junction. Action council leader P.P. Madhusoodanan presided over the function. The participants took oath to protect paddy cultivation at all costs.

Fr. Thomas Peelianikkal, executive director, Kuttanad Vikasana Samithi and convener of the action council, who inaugurated the meeting said the action council workers would block the Alappuzha-Changanasseri road at 10 a.m. on Friday to protest against the failure of the State Civil Supplies Corporation to buy the paddy procured by the agencies.

He said the action council leaders would hold an indefinite fast at Ramankary from June 18 to force the Government to issue orders to the corporation to buy the paddy procured by all the 88 procurement agencies in Alappuzha and Kottayam districts. Fr. Peelianikkal said the corporation had bought paddy procured only by 10 agencies. It was refusing to buy the paddy from 78 agencies on the ground that they had not provided the details of their stock to the corporation on the stipulated date, he said.

Fr. Peelianikkal demanded that Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and the Civil Supplies Minister Adoor Prakash immediately intervene in the issue.

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