nagpur former food and civil supplies minister and nationalist congress party ncp leader anil deshmukh has alleged that seeds supplied by the government agencies to farmers as part of a relief measure have turned out to be spurious as they failed to germinate after sowing he has demanded a probe into the matter according to deshmukh a large number of needy farmers were supplied seeds at reduced prices and these seeds were marketed by staterun mahabeej ltd far from getting any benefit farmers have lost their crop the low quality seeds were of soyabean which is one of the main cash crops in vidarbha region with monsoon now advancing these farmers have lost the opportunity and it is too late to sow again said the ncp leader the government should taken strict action if the seed company is at fault earlier mahabeej fleeced the farmers by suddenly hiking seed prices just at the time when farmers were readying for the season after much hue and cry the seed company was forced by the government to withdraw the price hike but by that time around 4 metric tonnes of seeds at high prices were already sold said deshmukh the government then agreed to refund the price difference but the process has been slow and most farmers have not received the refund said deshmukh deshmukh playing minority card meanwhile anil deshmukh has organized eid milan programme at chitnavis centre on sunday afternoon the move is seen in political circles as ncps cosying up to minorities the ncp is preparing to take a plunge in the civic politics with new vigour under leadership of party stalwart praful patel posing a stiff challenge to its ideological ally the congress invitation cards in green ink have been printed for the occasion while patel will be prominently present interestingly deshmukh has also invited local spiritual heads of every religion except one for the eid milan local religious heads of islamic buddhist christian sikh parsee and bohra communities will be honoured on the occasion deshmukh said in statement accompanying the invite