The government has told the Rajya Sabha that a committee on MSP will be formed after the Assembly elections.
Kailash Choudhary, Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, stated on Friday that the government is committed to establishing a committee to examine and provide legal guarantees of Minimum Support Price (MSP) once the Assembly elections in five states are completed.
In response to a question from Samajwadi Party member Sukhram Yadav in the Rajya Sabha, the Minister stated that the details of the proposed committee would be revealed once the government received approval from the Election Commission.
“The government hasn’t announced the details of the committee.” Chaudhary also added “Although the Model Code of Conduct is in place in many states across the country ahead of the 2022 Assembly elections.
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Later, Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar added: “We are committed to the issue of MSP, as the Prime Minister has stated. We were supposed to form a committee to fix the MSP, but Assembly election schedules were announced.”
He also informed the House that the Agriculture Ministry had requested permission from the Election Commission in writing. In response to the request, the EC stated that the Ministry should wait until the elections are completed before forming the Committee.
Earlier, during Zero Hour, Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi raised the issue of Kashmiri Pandit Rehabilitation, claiming that only 15% of the rehabilitation work to aid Kashmiri Pandits had been completed.
She also stated that following the passing of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, people from the rest of the country are now permitted to purchase land and other properties in the Union Territory. Kashmiri Pandits have been fighting to reclaim their properties. She also urged the government, via the Chairman, to speed up the construction of transit accommodation units.
While raising the issue of the inclusion of Khasi and Garo languages, National People’s Party Member Wanweiroy Kharlukhi stated that his state, Meghalaya, has had no recognised language for the last fifty years. He asked the government to include the Khasi and Garo languages in the Constitution’s eighth schedule.
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