'Where is promised MSP for soybean?'

The Congress party on Wednesday raised the issue of the soybean farmers of the state still not getting the minimum support price (MSP) for their produce despite former chief minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis promising it over a decade ago.

- Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said in a post on X that it was in 2013 that Fadnavis promised the Maharashtra farmers "a price of Rs6,000 per quintal for soybean". Similarly, he recalled that Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was then CM of Gujarat, had promised to implement the Swaminathan Commission Report that granted legal status to MSP.