Wednesday, 01 March 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Former chief minister Harish Rawat has said that the resolution of Indian National Congress to provide legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price (MSP) to the farmers would prove to be a major step in the direction of bringing prosperity to the farmers of the country. The resolution was passed by the Congress party in the 85th general convention held at Raipur recently.
In the convention the former CM Haryana Bhupender Singh Hooda presented the draft of the resolution in which a promise of MSP with legal guarantee under C2 formula of Swaminathan Commission was given. It said that the party would work towards complete debt relief of farmers and making agriculture a profitable business. The draft promises to give government assistance to agriculture and provide banking concessions like industry to it.
Rawat who attended the convention said that Congress has resolved that it would provide legal guarantee to the MSP and buying agricultural products at less than the MSP would be made a punishable offence. The former CM said on social media that 700 farmers sacrificed their lives at the Ghazipur border but the heart of the union government didn’t melt. He said that the Congress party understood the pain and sacrifices of the farmers and decided that it would give legal guarantee to the MSP. “ This is the first roar of the party from Raipur. The workers of every level have given some collective roars from Raipur,’’ he said.
Rawat added that the leadership of Sonia Gandhi, Congress president Mallikarjun Khadke, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi gave inspiration to the workers of the party. He said that the enthusiasm of the workers in Raipur got a major boost from the works done by the Chhattisgarh government. The former CM of Uttarakhand said that the Bhupesh Baghel government has done unprecedented work in the field of agriculture and the farmers have become prosperous there. He said that the agriculture model of Chhattisgarh is an ideal model for the nation.
