New Delhi:Seeking to allay concerns of farmers over a new set of laws amid continuing protests by some parties, senior Union Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday assured the farm community that the MSP (Minimum Support Price) will not only stay, but it will also be continuously increased in coming years.
He also hit out at Congress for the burning of a tractor by protesters from their youth wing, by saying, "As a weapon is sacred to soldiers, so is a tractor for farmers and by burning them, they are insulting nation's farmers."
The Congress' youth wing activists on Monday had set a tractor ablaze near India Gate in the national capital, a few hundred metres from the Rashtrapati Bhavan and Parliament, to protest the contentious farm laws.
Talking to a select group of journalists, the Defence Minister said, " Being a farmer's son myself, I want to make it clear that the Modi government will not do anything that is not in the interest of farmers."
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"I appeal to all farmers' organisations that if they have any issue please come and talk with us. I have already started talking to farmers organisations to clear misgivings and misconceptions," he said.