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New Delhi, Sep 19: The farm bills brought by the government undermine the food security system, the Congress claimed on Saturday and urged opposition parties to collectively oppose the bills so that they do not become law in their present form.
Congress leader and former Union finance minister P Chidambaram said that the Congress’s 2019 poll manifesto was based on foundational principles of minimum support price (MSP), public procurement and public distribution system (PDS) to ensure food security.
But Prime Minister Narendra Modi and spokespersons of the BJP have “deliberately and…