Prime Minister Narendra Modi had “betrayed” farmers by not implementing the Swaminathan Commission recommendations on minimum support price (MSP) and should apologise to the country for it, the Congress said on Wednesday.
The party claimed that Mr. Modi was “opposing” what he had recommended when he was the Gujarat Chief Minister in March 2011.
“Be it the BJP’s manifesto of 2014 or the recommendation of Chief Minister Modi’s committee in 2011, the Modi government betrayed the farmers on the guarantee of giving legal MSP,” Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera alleged.