Hyderabad, Aug. 30 -- Telangana BJP MLA Paidi Rakesh Reddy on Saturday refuted the allegations of Congress and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) of a shortage of urea and fertilisers for the farmers in the state and accused the Congress of selling the fertilisers on the black market.

Paidi Rakesh Reddy said, "BRS and Congress are putting allegations on the central government, but the government has provided a substantial amount of urea. Before the harvest, we gave a buffer stock of 2.5 lakh bags of urea, and after that, 5.5 lakh tonnes and then when Telangana MPs met Union Minister and BJP National President JP Nadda, then within one hour, imported urea was released, but Congress sold it in the black market."

BJP leader Payal Shankar said th...