BRS walks out from Assembly on denial of retirement benefits issue

The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) staged a walkout from the Assembly in protest against the Congress Government’s failure to give a clear assurance over payment of retirement benefits and pending DAs. The BRS also staged a protest in the House over the Government’s response on rice exports to Philippines.

During question hour in the Assembly, BRS member T Harish Rao charged that there was a big scam in the rice exports to Philippines.

He sought a clear reply from the government over the status of 7500 metric tonnes of rice stock lying in the Kakinada Port for one



year.

Despite NAFED, a central government organization expressing its willingness to make advance payments for rice exports, the Congress government had offered the contract to a private agency he charged. 

He sought to know why tenders were not floated and whether the contract was offered on a nomination basis.

On the appointment of a person accused in different CBI and ED cases as a Government advisor, he sought an explanation over his appointment. “We demand constitution of a House Committee into these irregularities,” Harish Rao demanded.