New Delhi Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that congress party will give a legal guarantee of MSP to every farmer on all crops. Mr Gandhi’s guarantee comes at a time when the ‘Dilli Chalo March’ is being organised by around 200 farmer unions. Farmers have been demanding the enactment of a law guaranteeing a minimum support price (MSP) for crops as per Dr M S Swaminathan Commission’s report.
“Farmer brothers, today is a historic day! Congress has decided to give legal guarantee of MSP to every farmer on crops as per the Swaminathan Commission. This step will change the lives of 15 crore farmer families by ensuring their prosperity. This is the first guarantee of Congress on the path of justice,” Rahul Gandhi said in an X post.
farmers began to remove the barricades
On Tuesday, protesting farmers began to remove the barricades at the Punjab-Haryana (Shambhu) border, following which the Haryana police fired rounds of tear gas to disperse the protestors. A Footage showed that protesters were trying to break through the barricades by lifting away cement blocks placed there to halt the march, as police used drones to fire tear gas rounds into the crowd. Some protesters were also detained.