The committee on minimum support price (MSP) should be scrapped and reconstituted by including farmers’ representatives from Punjab, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) member Harsimrat Kaur said in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
Speaking during the Zero Hour, Ms. Kaur said that all the five members in the Centre’s panel, which has been tasked with examining farmers’ demand to make MSP a legal right, were supporters of the now repealed farm laws.
The terms of reference for the panel have also changed as the Gazette notification of the government says the panel will try to make MSP ‘more effective and transparent’.
“Punjab is well known as the granary of India and our farmers protested against the farm laws... But not one member is from Punjab. The government should reconstitute to include voices from Punjab,” said Ms. Kaur.
BJP member from Udaipur, Arjun Lal Meena, raised tailor Kanhaiya Lal’s killing and claimed that the killers had links with the Pakistan-based organisation, Dawwat-e-Islami. He called for a detailed investigation.
