MSP is right of farmers: Hooda

Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has said the guarantee of MSP is the right of farmers. The Central Government itself had promised this while ending the farmers’ movement, and the Centre should give a legal guarantee of MSP on every crop now, as per its promise.

“The BJP government should consider the demands of the farmers who marched to Delhi. The Congress has also repeatedly raised this demand before the government and it was also mentioned in the party’s election manifesto,” the Congress leader said.

Answering questions from journalists at his residence here, Hooda, who was accompanied by Congress MPs Jaiprakash JP and Satpal Brahmachari, said the Congress had also raised the issues of farmers in the Assembly.

“Everyone saw that after the elections, the BJP went back on its own promise. It neither bought paddy from the farmers at the rate of Rs 3,100 nor was it purchased at MSP,” he said.

“While the BJP claims that it is giving MSP on 24 crops in Haryana. The truth is that there are not even 24 crops in Haryana. The rates of the decisions taken in the state are never given to farmers,” he pointed out.

Not only this, he said, farmers have to wander from door to door for fertilisers. “The government claims that there is no shortage of fertilisers, yet the farmers had to stand in long queues for many days and buy fertilisers in black,” he said.