Appeasing Annadata: Congress Promises MSP Guarantee, BJP Highlights Modi Govt’s Farmer-friendly Steps

Several farmer associations have begun a protest to demand a law guaranteeing a minimum support price (MSP), one of the conditions they had set when they agreed to withdraw their agitation against the now-repealed farm laws in 2021. They are also seeking implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s recommendations, pensions for farmers and farm labourers, farm debt waiver, withdrawal of police cases and ‘justice’ for victims of the Lakhimpur Kheri violence