Hyderabad, Aug. 30 -- Chairman of the Telangana Seed Development Corporation, Anvesh Reddy Sunketa, wrote a letter to the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) criticising them for Saturday's urea protest.

He said that if BRS leaders were "truly sincere" towards farmers, they should hold a dharna in front of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office or in Delhi.

"India is facing shortage of urea," he said, adding, "This kharif season, not even 60 percent of urea allocated to Telangana has been supplied. The Central government has okayed at 8.30 lakh metric tonnes, out of which, only 5.95 lakh metric tonnes have been supplied."

The chairman further stated that the government has supplied 7.62 lakh metric tonnes of urea this year as compared to las...