‘SAD will not allow tinkering with MSP’

CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal once again said on Thursday that they would not allow tinkering with the MSP or assured marketing of wheat and paddy. He said that Congress’s 2017 assembly election manifesto clearly states that the party would amend the state APMC Act to allow private mandis in the state.

 The SAD President also demanded a CBI inquiry into purchase of agricultural machinery from private companies alledgedly at inflated rates.

Addressing a virtual conference here, Badal said that despite promising in the party election manifesto that it would amend the APMC Act, the Congress party was now playing politics on this issue by misleading farmers that the MSP and assured marketing system would end. “This is furthest from the truth. The SAD is a party of farmers. We understand the problems of farmers and have always fought for their rights. Let me assure our brave farmers that the SAD will not stand for any discrimination against them. We will not allow anyone to tinker with MSP and assured marketing policy now or anytime in the future also”