BJP general secretary Ananth Kumar in Patna

BJP general secretary Ananth Kumar said his party would launch a week-long agitation from September 18 to pressurise the UPA government to comply with the Supreme Court order for free distribution of foodgrains stored in godowns among the poor.

Ananth Kumar was talking to scribes in Patna on September 12, 2010. He said the people had been feeling the pinch of overall price rise, but the Prime Minister and the Agriculture Minister had been opposing the apex court's recent order for free distribution of foodgrains.

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