BRS demands FCI to seek ED, CBI probe into paddy sale, rice purchase tenders in Telangana
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) urged the Food Corporation of India (FCI) to investigate a purported ₹1,100-crore scam in global tenders for 35 lakh tonnes of paddy and fine rice procurement. BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao, alongside former chairpersons Peddi Sudarshan Reddy and S. Ravinder Singh, and party leaders Ponnala Lakshmaiah and Shambipur Raju, demanded action from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). They highlighted concerns over four agencies/companies securing both procurement and supply tenders.
The Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) has demanded that the Food Corporation of India (FCI), which is the nodal agency for procurement of paddy/custom-milled rice, lodge a complaint with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into “a ₹1,100-crore scam in the global tenders” called for the disposal of 35 lakh tonnes paddy and procurement of fine rice.
Addressing a press conference here on Sunday along with two former chairpersons of the State Civil Supplies Corporation – Peddi Sudarshan Reddy and S. Ravinder Singh – and party leaders Ponnala Lakshmaiah and Shambipur Raju, BRS working president K.T. Rama Rao said it was a strange coincidence that the same four agencies/ companies — Kendriya Bhandar, NACOF, Hindustan and LG — had secured both the tenders of paddy purchase and fine rice supply from/to the State Civil Supplies Corporation.
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