NEW DELHI: Amid a row in Parliament over the problem of minimal help worth (MSP) for sure crops, govt on Friday sought to name out the opposition’s “double commonplace” in Rajya Sabha by flagging a Cupboard observe of the then UPA govt that rejected the advice of the M S Swaminathan-led Nationwide Fee on Farmers on giving help worth at 50% greater than the weighted common of enter value.
Highlighting that the Manmohan Singh govt had then argued that such larger MSP might distort the ‘mandi’ (agri market), Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday positioned the Cupboard observe of July 28, 2007 earlier than the Higher Home.
“The Opposition simply does politics within the identify of farmers and creates chaos, however as agriculture minister, I guarantee you that underneath the Prime Minister’s management, we are going to depart no stone unturned to make farming worthwhile and double farmers’ incomes,” mentioned Chouhan. His remarks come as a counter to the fees of Congress members Randeep Surjewala and Jairam Ramesh within the Home.
Chouhan even cited numerous responses of the then ministers – Sharad Pawar, Kantilal Bhuria and Ok V Thomas – of UPA-I & II regimes and claimed that every one of them had rejected the upper MSP that was advisable by the Swaminathan fee on one or the opposite floor.
“We’ve given twice the MSP charges as in comparison with when Surjewala’s (Congress-led UPA) govt was in workplace,” mentioned Chouhan amid sloganeering by opposition members. He mentioned most procurement has been performed underneath the Modi govt, and the govt. will this yr purchase all of the produce of pulses corresponding to tur, masoor, and urad from farmers.
On the query of authorized assure for minimal help worth, Chouhan mentioned a committee had been constituted to recommend methods to make MSP out there to farmers by “making the system more practical and clear”.
Later, Ramesh criticised Chouhan in a submit on X (previously Twitter): “For nearly half-hour, he stonewalled and went spherical and spherical with the intention to keep away from answering the query. Authorized assure for MSP for rice, wheat and different agri-produce was the problem. All that the minister achieved was delivering a jalebi.”
Addressing a press convention, Surjewala mentioned, “Modi govt’s conspiracy has been uncovered because the agriculture minister refused C2+50 per cent revenue as MSP.”
Highlighting that the Manmohan Singh govt had then argued that such larger MSP might distort the ‘mandi’ (agri market), Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday positioned the Cupboard observe of July 28, 2007 earlier than the Higher Home.
“The Opposition simply does politics within the identify of farmers and creates chaos, however as agriculture minister, I guarantee you that underneath the Prime Minister’s management, we are going to depart no stone unturned to make farming worthwhile and double farmers’ incomes,” mentioned Chouhan. His remarks come as a counter to the fees of Congress members Randeep Surjewala and Jairam Ramesh within the Home.
Chouhan even cited numerous responses of the then ministers – Sharad Pawar, Kantilal Bhuria and Ok V Thomas – of UPA-I & II regimes and claimed that every one of them had rejected the upper MSP that was advisable by the Swaminathan fee on one or the opposite floor.
“We’ve given twice the MSP charges as in comparison with when Surjewala’s (Congress-led UPA) govt was in workplace,” mentioned Chouhan amid sloganeering by opposition members. He mentioned most procurement has been performed underneath the Modi govt, and the govt. will this yr purchase all of the produce of pulses corresponding to tur, masoor, and urad from farmers.
On the query of authorized assure for minimal help worth, Chouhan mentioned a committee had been constituted to recommend methods to make MSP out there to farmers by “making the system more practical and clear”.
Later, Ramesh criticised Chouhan in a submit on X (previously Twitter): “For nearly half-hour, he stonewalled and went spherical and spherical with the intention to keep away from answering the query. Authorized assure for MSP for rice, wheat and different agri-produce was the problem. All that the minister achieved was delivering a jalebi.”
Addressing a press convention, Surjewala mentioned, “Modi govt’s conspiracy has been uncovered because the agriculture minister refused C2+50 per cent revenue as MSP.”
