Chandigarh: In order to safeguard the interests of farmers, senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and MP Raghav Chadha on Friday has introduced a Private Member’s bill to ensure implementation of the Minimum Support Price Guarantee Bill, 2022 which envisages guaranteed MSP to farmers for their crops.

Issuing a statement here, MP Chadha said that the BJP-led Union government had promised legal guarantee on MSP for agricultural produce during the farmers’ agitation last year. But now, the Union government has betrayed the promise made to farmers and is evading a legal guarantee of MSP.

“I represent Punjab and its farmers and will strongly raise their voice in the parliament. I have introduced a private member’s bill in the Rajya Sabha, which will coerce the government to hold a debate on the issue. I will fight for farmers’ rights till my last breath,” MP Chadha said.

Pointing out that the Union government should include experts and farmers from Punjab in the MSP committee, MP Chadha said that as recommended by previous government committees, experts and farmers’ unions, the calculations and process to determine MSP need to be revised and reformed.

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New Delhi: The government has constituted a committee to strengthen the minimum support price (MSP) regime. The government had promised to set up a committee on MSP at the time of the withdrawal of the three contentious farm laws eight months ago. Former agriculture secretary Sanjay Agarwal will be the chairman of the committee.

It may be mentioned that the government had made a provision to include three members of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha in this committee, but the farmers’ organisation has not given any name for the committee so far. The Agriculture Ministry has issued a gazette notification regarding the constitution of the committee.

The committee included Ramesh Chand, a member of NITI Aayog, CSC Shekhar, agricultural economist from the Indian Institute of Economic Development, Sukhpal Singh from IIM Ahmedabad and Naveen, a senior member of the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP). P. Singh is involved. Among the farmers’ representatives in the committee are National Award winning farmer Bharat Bhushan Tyagi, three members of SKM and five members of other farmers’ organisations – Gunwant Patil, Krishnaveer Chaudhary, Pramod Kumar Chaudhary, Guni Prakash and Syed Pasha Patel.

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