INDIA alliance will provide legal guarantee of MSP, waive farm debts: NC

Jammu, May 11: The INDIA alliance will provide a legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price (MSP) to every farmer on crops, along with a comprehensive farm debt waiver, if voted to power in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. This was stated by Rattan Lal Gupta, Provincial President, JKNC, Jammu on Saturday.
In a statement issued here, the senior NC leader criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government at the Centre for “curbing the voice” of the farming community. “In the last 10 years, the Modi government has backtracked from its promises made to the food providers of the country. The BJP has backtracked, from their promises to double farmers’ income by 2022 and legal status to Minimum Support Price (MSP),” he said.
Gupta said PM Modi committed to double the farmers’ income but the fact is that the farmer is not able to cover his production cost of the crop not to talk of profit or doubling of income. “More than 700 farmers lost their lives, yet despite this harrowing toll, the government remains unwilling to provide Minimum Support Price (MSP) to them,” he said, adding, “In the absence of any visionary policy of the farmers these food producers continue to crave for seeds and fertilizers.”
The senior NC leader stated that despite the government’s tall claims of having achieved tremendous success in every sector, the fact remains that there are no proper or even adequate Marketing Mandis or storage facilities for farmers’ produce. “The ultimate result of all these enumerated shortcomings is that farmers are not getting adequate prices for their produce despite their hard toil in the fields amid tough economic conditions,” he said, adding, “This stark reality underscores the deep-seated injustices and neglect faced by the agricultural community, whose livelihoods are at stake under the present dispensation.”
Rattan Lal said, “The Modi government’s decade-long tenure will be remembered as a period of relentless hardship inflicted upon farmers. The transformation of Delhi into a fortress to silence the voices of our food providers reflects the cruelty of the BJP government.”
Now the time has come to raise the voice of the 62 crore farmers in the country, Gupta asserted. He maintained that the INDIA alliance will provide the legal guarantee of MSP to every farmer on crops and waive off their farm debts if voted to power after general elections.