Hoardings Mock BJP MP Arvind On Turmeric Board Promise

Hoardings claiming to be put up by turmeric farmers reportedly sprung up across Nizamabad district today mocking BJP MP Arvind Dharmapuri, who represents the constituency in the Lok Sabha, for not fulfilling his election campaign promise of setting up a turmeric board in the region.

During the 2019 general elections, Arvind, along with Union Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP leader Ram Madhav, had reportedly promised to set up a turmeric board for farmers in Nizamabad. However, Union Minister of State for Commerce & Industry Anupriya Patel on Wednesday announced that there was no proposal to establish any spice-specific board, including any turmeric board, in the country.

Protesting against the union government's "failure" to honour the promise of setting up a turmeric board, the farmers initiated the rather unique protest against the BJP's leadership, and put up posters and hoardings across the district.

Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders reminded people that Arvind had even promised on a judicial bond paper that he would prevail upon the union government and get the board approved within five days of winning the elections in 2019.

The BJP MP had also promised that he would resign if he failed to get the board, the BRS leaders said.

However, despite repeated pleas from the Telangana government and the State's farmers, the union government had been rejecting the appeals, citing different reasons, the BRS leaders claimed.

Reminding the Nizamabad MP of his election campaign promise, posters and hoardings mocking the BJP in Telugu reading "turmeric board, turmeric board brought by our Nizamabad MP" surfaced across the district, lampooning Arvind's "broken promises" and "failure" to secure a turmeric board for the farmers of the district.

BRS MLC and former Nizamabad MP Kalvakuntla Kavitha too asked Arvind about his promise.

Kavitha said that Arvind had been unsuccessful in convincing the union government to set up a turmeric board in the district, and to cover that up, was making exaggerated claims about the allocation of Rs 100 crore by the Centre to the district, when under Arvind's administration every farmer received only Rs 200 from the turmeric board.

Kavitha lambasted Arvind and the BJP for making "lofty but false" promises to the Nizamabad people just to win an election.