Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Monday said that there was not a single line in the three agriculture-related bills on ending the Minimum Support Price, or MSP, and claimed that he would quit from his post if the support price was threatened, The Tribune reported.
Crops would be procured on the MSP, Chautala said, adding that farmers would also have the right to sell their produce in the market if they were getting higher prices.
The deputy chief minister, who is a the president of the Jannayak Janata Party, also accused Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda of misguiding farmers and said that the former chief minister had supported an open market for farmers. He said the Congress had advocated for contract farming during the first term of the United Progressive Alliance government but was now against the bills for its political interests.
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