hyderabad the turf of nizamabad is getting spiced up with politics over turmeric playing out once again if 492 nominations filed by turmeric farmers helped bjps dharmapuri arvind defeat the ruling partys kalvakuntla kavitha two years ago the farmers this time have decided to take their fight to delhi to seek a turmeric board and minimum support price msp for their producethe farmers joint action committee is holding a key meeting in the next few days to chart out an action plan which includes staging protests in front of jantar mantar with congress leaders like a revanth reddy and t jeevan reddy expressing solidarity with the turmeric farmers the issue has now taken a political colour we are even planning to stage a padayatra walkathon to nizamabad market from here s ravi member of the jac told toi what has added more spice to the farmers cause is the ruling trs also jumping into the bandwagon and demanding a turmeric board and attacking arvind for his failure to get the board sanctioned by the centre the ruling party leaders recalled that arvind ran his campaign primarily on the turmeric board issue and said he has gone back on his promiseseveral farmers had also met the mp in this regard however arvind asserted that he had never promised that he would get the turmeric board within a few days of getting elected as an mp arvind claimed that he would try to get a local spice board sanctioned for nizamabad jagtial mla sanjay kumar of the trs however took potshots at the farmers for wanting to meet cm k chandrasekhar rao or trs working president kt rama rao to represent their issues joining the issue state kisan congress president anvesh reddy said farmers have every right to make a representation to the cmmeanwhile the turmeric produce is set for harvest but farmers complained that they are getting only rs 5000 per quintal as against an msp of rs 15000