TRS MPs move notice for privilege motion against Piyush Goyal

The TRS MPs have served a notice to move a privilege motion against Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Piyush Goyal for what they said as ‘deliberately misleading the Parliament and Members over the issue of export of boiled rice to other countries’.

In a letter to Lok Speaker Om Birla on Monday, the TRS MPs, including Prabhakar Reddy, Venkatesh Netha, Maine Srinivas Reddy, Nama Nageswara Rao, BB Patil, Kavitha Malothu and Ranjith Reddy, said that while answering a question raised in Rajya Sabha on April 1, the Union Minister had said that India cannot export boiled rice under WTO restrictions and State Government’s must fend for



themselves.

The TRS MPs said that this was to a suggestion made by the Member that there lakh tonnes of parboiled rice was lying with the States and suggested that the rice could be exported to other countries to help the farmers here.

In reply, the Union Minister made a wrong and misleading statement that the Government of India cannot export under WTO regime, the TRS MPs said.

But the fact was that India was exporting million of tonnes of parboiled rice to other countries as shown in the Government’s website. This was tantamount to misleading the nation and raising the issue of privilege of the Parliament, the TRS MPs said.