The Turmeric farmers dump Turmeric produce in front of BJP MP Dharmapuri Arvind’s residence as a mark of Protest in failing to achieve the Turmeric Board.
In March 2019, Arvind made a vow in writing and even signed it on a non-judicial stamp paper, that he would get a turmeric board in 5 days if he is elected to the parliament*
Arvind, in the last three years, could only get our farmers an allocation of Rs 1.92 crore for close to 1 lakh turmeric producing farmers. If you divide it between all of us, it boils down to less than Rs 200. All he did was deceive farmers by distributing a bond paper, said the protesting farmers*
*MLC Kalvakuntla Kavitha exposed the lie of BJP Leadership and Nizamabad MP Arvind Dharmapuri. She reveals over 90,000 turmeric farmers spread over 1 lakh acres of land were cheated by BJP .Mere Rs 190 Rupees allocated per farmer in 2020-2021, 124 Rs in 2021 and nothing in 2022-2023!*
*RTI revealed the truth of MP Arvind Dharamapuri’s false claims on the Turmeric Board for Nizamabad.
Holding the RTI, The farmers asked the BJP and Nizamabad MP the reason for depriving the farmers and people of Nizamabad of their basic dues. They further accused, the MP of making tall claims of Rs 100 crore allocation, while every farmer made only Rs 200 of the turmeric board under his regime.
They also said It was Smt Kavitha Kalvakuntla Former Member of Parliament from Nizamabad in 2014 took up the fight of Turmeric farmers of Nizamabad to Delhi and fought to bring long due Turmeric Board for ensuring justice is served to the effort and hard work of every turmeric farmer.
For the year 2020-21, a sum of Rs 1,18,71,000 was allocated out of which Rs 75 lakhs was assistance towards boilers and Rs 43.71 lakhs is for the assistance towards turmeric polishers, said the RTI reply that Kavitha shared.
Similarly, for 2021-22, a total of Rs 74.81 lakhs was allocated, and Rs 39.73 lakhs went towards assistance for boilers, Rs 6.58 lakhs for turmeric polishers, and Rs 15 lakhs as assistance towards Silpaulin sheets, Rs 10 lakhs towards assistance for Spices Producers group in the identified cluster and Rs 3.50 lakhs for setting up basic quality testing equipment, the RTI reply stated.
Arvind had promised the farming community in the Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency in the run-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections that if elected as MP, he would get the turmeric board sanctioned to the district and that he would get proper minimum support prices fixed for both turmeric and red jowar.
“If he failed to keep both commitments, he had said that he would resign as a member of Parliament and join the farmers’ and people’s movement,”
