Govt To Form Committee On MSP After Assembly Elections: Narendra Singh Tomar

Mumbai: Addressing the Rajya Sabha, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said that the government is committed to forming a panel on Minimum Support Price (MSP).

The Election Commission has said it can be done after the Assembly polls, he added.

The Minister made this announcement while answering a question during Question Hour. Tomar said the government had written to the Election Commission (EC) regarding the announcement of the committee on MSP in view of the assembly elections in five states.

According to the minister, the Election Commission has advised that the committee on MSP should be announced after the elections are over in five states. Prime Minister Narendra Modi in November last year, while announcing the repeal of three agriculture laws, had said that a committee would be set up to discuss farmers’ demand for a legal guarantee on MSP.

“The entire country knows that the Prime Minister has announced the formation of a committee to make crop diversification, natural farming and MSP effective and transparent. The government is committed to the announcement made by the PM. The matter is under consideration of the Ministry and the announcement of the Committee will be done after Assembly polls,” Tomar said.

The elections are in the scheduled states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab. Voting for 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh will be held in seven phases on February 10, February 14, February 20, February 23, February 27, March 3 and March 7.

Punjab, Goa and Uttarakhand will all vote on the same day on February 14. Manipur will go to the polls in two phases on February 27 and March 3.

The counting of votes in assembly 70 seats in Uttarakhand, 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 117 in Punjab, 60 in Manipur and 40 in Goa will be done on March 10

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