As Centre says there is no plan to set up a separate Turmeric Board, BRS is targeting Nizamabad MP who promised it in 2019.
One of the boards that appeared in Nizamabad against MP Arvind Dharmapuri. (Twitter)
BRS MLC Kavitha Kalvakuntla, facing political headwinds ever since the ED began questioning her alleged role in the Delhi liquor scam, is remains active in the public sphere, exposing the BJP government on various counts.
Now Kavitha’s supporters are trying to expose how the BJP had gone back on its promise of setting up the Turmeric Board in Nizamabad.
The issue of locating a Turmeric Board in Nizamabad has sentimental value to Kavitha. She lost the election to the Lok Sabha from Nizamabad in 2019, because she failed to establish the board for the turmeric farmers when she was the MP between 2014 and 2019.
Whipping up passions among the farmers, BJP candidate Dharmapuri Arvind won the election in 2019 with a margin of 1.64 lakh votes. He had promised the Turmeric Board within hours of becoming an MP.
Now with the Centre making no bones about its unwillingness to set up the Turmeric Board in Nizamabad, Kavitha is leading an agitation against the BJP and Arvind.
Overnight, yellow flex boards have appeared all over Nizamabad, on which is written: “This is the board our MP got for us.”
On social media, the BRS has gone on a rampage. The BRS also attached videos of BJP leaders promising Turmeric Board to Nizamabad during the run-up to the elections in 2019.
The images of the flex boards at various places in Nizamabad appeared overnight, taking the wind out of the sails of the BJP.
Before Elections, #BJP candidate promises on bond paper they’ll give ‘Turmeric Board’
After #Elections, BJP Govt denies turmeric board to #Telangana pic.twitter.com/JK4eLpOJOi
— YSR (@ysathishreddy) March 30, 2023
The immediate provocation for the protest was the reply in Parliament by Union Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Anupriya Patel on Thursday, 30 March.
She said, “Spices Board, a statutory autonomous body, set up under the Spices Board Act, 1986, is entrusted with the responsibility of promoting 52 spices including turmeric, coriander, and chilies. Therefore, there is no proposal to establish a Turmeric Board or any other spice-specific board in the country.”
The question was raised in Lok Sabha by BRS members Venkatesh Netha Borlakunta, Kavitha Malothu, Dayakar Pasunoori, and Gaddam Ranjith Reddy while narrating the travails of the turmeric farmers in the absence of a Turmeric Board.
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గుజరాతీ బాసుల చెప్పులు మోసే… pic.twitter.com/6srE7gdE1E
— KTR (@KTRBRS) March 30, 2023
The BRS has posted on social media videos of MP Arvind, BJP leader Varanasi Ram Madhav, and Union Minister Rajnath Singh promising Nizamabad farmers the most sought after Turmeric Board during 2019 Parliament Polls
Arvind Dharmpiuri had made the promise on a judicial bond paper that he would get the elusive Turmeric Board within five days of winning elections in 2019 and that he would resign if failed to do so.
Kavitha has questioned Arvind why he had gone back on his promise of getting the Turmeric Board and said that he failed to convince the Centre of the need for setting up the board.
Kavitha recalled MP Arvind Dharmapuri and the BJP’s lofty but misleading promises to the Nizamabad people to just win an election and belie their expectations.
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