Harish Rao demands immediate release of Rs 1,161 crore towards paddy bonus

Former Minister and senior BRS leader T Harish Rao lashed out at the Congress government for its failure to release Rs. 1,161 crore towards the paddy purchase bonus and pending payments for sunflower crop procurement. 

He demanded the immediate release of the bonus to paddy farmers and the overdue payments to sunflower



farmers.

Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Harish Rao said the much-publicised Rs. 500 bonus per tonne of fine variety paddy has turned out to be bogus. 

He stated that even after procuring 23.22 lakh tonnes of paddy from 4.01 lakh farmers during the Yasangi (Rabi) season, the government has not released the Rs. 1,161 crore bonus it had promised.