Hyderabad, Mar 17 (IANS) : Wearing garlands of chillies, members of the Telangana Legislative Council belonging to the opposition Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) staged a novel protest on Monday. BRS MLCs K. Kavitha, S. Madhusudhana Chary, Mehmood Ali, Satyavati Rathod and others staged the protest in Council premises to demand minimum support price for chillies. Wearing garlands of chillies, holding placards and raising slogans, the MLCs demanded that a Minimum Support Price (MSP) of Rs 25,000 per quintal be fixed for chillies and solve the problems faced by chilli farmers. The MLCs demanded that the state government put pressure on the Centre for immediate chilli procurement by the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation (NAFED) and Marketing Federation (MARKFED)
at Rs 25,000 MSP
