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Promise of sustained rise in MSP, but no legal guarantee

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April 15, 2024

IN ITS MANIFESTO unveiled on Sunday, the BJP promised to continue with an increase in the minimum support price (MSP) from time to time, but refrained from acceding to the long-pending demand from a section of farmers for legal guarantee to these floor prices.

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Promise of sustained rise in MSP, but no legal guarantee

With the theme of empowering farmers and boosting the fisheries sector, the manifesto included a range of promises aimed at making the agriculture sector remunerative, but was silent on an earlier promise to double farmers' income.

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