New Delhi: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge proposed a law guaranteeing the minimum support price (MSP) for various crops as protesting farmers marched towards the nation’s capital on Tuesday. He referred to this as his party’s “first guarantee” ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
One of the main demands of the farmers demonstrating is a legal guarantee of MSP. Farmers from all around the nation began travelling to the nation’s capital as part of their “Delhi Chalo” march after negotiations between them and the government broke down.
The Congress Party declares that, through mass purchases, we will provide our farmers with a legal guarantee of MSP. We guarantee acquiring various crops at MSP. We will provide it as a legal guarantee as soon as our government takes office. “This is our first guarantee,” Kharge declared while speaking at a rally in Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh.
Kharge accompanied Congressman Rahul Gandhi, who is presently travelling through Chhattisgarh as part of his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from Manipur to Maharashtra.
“BJP government gave Bharat Ratna to (M.S.) Swaminathanji, but they are not ready to do what Swaminathan ji said,” Rahul Gandhi said in reference to the news. In his study, Swaminathan ji made it quite evident that farmers ought to have legal rights to MSP. It is not being done by the BJP government.
“The government of INDIA (alliance) will take power,” he continued. After that, we will provide farmers with MSP guarantees. We shall carry out the recommendations made in the Swaminathan report.
Rahul declared that the manifesto for the next Lok Sabha elections will include a number of additional announcements specifically for farmers.
Numerous police officers could be seen getting ready to block the protest from reaching the capital on Delhi’s boundaries.
Authorities in Delhi have placed cement and nails on top of it in an attempt to stop farmers. Is democracy being practiced here? If I defend my rights against the prime minister, will you put nails in my path, build fences, and use a lathicharger? This is what kind of democracy? Kharge stated, “He (Modi) does not want the farmers to do well.
Party general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala also criticised the Modi government earlier in the day when he spoke at a press conference regarding the limitations placed on farmers’ protests.
“As if an enemy has attacked the power in Delhi, the BJP central government and the BJP governments of Haryana, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh have transformed the nation’s capital, Delhi, into a ‘police cantonment,’” Surjewala said.
Congress lawmaker Priyanka Gandhi also posted on X following Kharge’s declaration, saying that farmers have a right to a fair price for their products. Instead of violence, tear gas, sticks and bullets, they should be paid a decent wage. The congressional party supports the farmers’ justifiable demands.