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Buy paddy from Assam farmers: Akhil Gogoi asks FCI

By AT News |

Guwahati: Raijor Dal leader and MLA Akhil Gogoi demanded Food Corporation of India to purchase rice from farmers of the state, in a live Internet video on Friday,

Members of the Raijor Dal also demonstrated a dharna in front of FCI offiice at Guwahati.

 

 

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