Expressing solidarity with the protesting farmers in Delhi, the Congress on February 13 promised that it would provide a legal guarantee for minimum support price to farmers if its INDIA bloc alliance came to power. The party claimed that the move would benefit nearly 15 crore farmers in the country.
At a rally in Chhattisgarh’s Ambikapur, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and his predecessor Rahul Gandhi announced their plan to provide MSP in accordance with the farm income recommendations of the Swaminathan Committee, a primary demand of protesters gathered at the borders of the national capital for the ‘Delhi Chalo’ march. The rally was the concluding event of the Chhattisgarh leg of the party’s ongoing Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, which will resume in Bihar two days later.
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