Hyderabad: Union Minister for Coal and Mines G. Kishan Reddy on Sunday dared the Congress government in Telangana to scrap fine rice scheme. He was reacting to Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s reported threat to people of Jubilee Hills constituency that if they elect candidate of any other party in the by-election, the government will stop welfare schemes including supply of free fine rice to poor families through fair price shops.

Addressing a press conference, Kishan Reddy demanded that the Congress government should state clearly who was implementing fine rice scheme. Claiming that the fine rice scheme is not a state government scheme, he said the Chief Minister was misleading people.

The BJP leader said that the Central government was implementing rice scheme across the country.

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