The committee on Minimum Support Prices, crop diversification and other issues promised to the farmers by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will be set up only after the upcoming Assembly elections are over, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar told the Rajya Sabha on Friday. In response to a question, the Minister said the Election Commission had not allowed the committee to be set up until then.
His statement comes after farm unions observed a Day of Betrayal earlier this week, slamming the government for failing to keep its promise, made in November, to set up the committee.
