Chandigarh. Former Deputy Chief Minister of Haryana Dushyant Chautala has termed the increase in the minimum support price of Kharif crops by the Central Government for the season 2026-27 as inadequate and has demanded from the government to increase the MSP. Dushyant Chautala said that the government has increased the MSP of paddy by only three percent by Rs 72 per quintal. Apart from this, only a slight increase of Rs 125 in millet, Rs 10 in maize and Rs 12 in moong has been made, which is not at all in the interest of the farmers. Dushyant Chautala said that instead of giving MSP to the farmers, the BJP government is only cheating and only false pretense is being made in the name of MSP. Former Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala said that today due to the inflation of diesel, fertilizer and seeds, agricultural costs are continuously increasing and these costs cannot be compensated by increasing such a low MSP. Describing the BJP government as anti-farmer, Dushyant said that first the farmers were not given timely compensation for crop damage, then there was a lot of delay in crop purchase and payment and now the government is trying to break the backs of the farmers by increasing the nominal MSP. Dushyant Chautala said that JJP strongly opposes the decision of marginal increase on Kharif crops. He said that the BJP, which came to government by making false promises of doubling the income of farmers, should think about reducing the expenses of the farmers and giving fair prices to the farmers for their crops. Dushyant said that the government should again consider increasing the MSP of Kharif crops and should set the support price keeping in mind the interests of the farmers. Former Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala also said that MSP is the right of farmers and every grain of crops should be purchased at MSP only, but the BJP government has failed to provide MSP to the farmers. He said that during the last procurement, the BJP government had cheated the farmers in the name of MSP. Last season, there was a reduction of Rs 300 to Rs 400 in the price of paddy. Whereas despite the MSP of millet being Rs 2775, farmers were forced to sell it for Rs 1800. Similarly, despite the MSP of moong crop being fixed at around Rs 8700 per quintal, due to lack of government procurement, farmers were forced to sell at private rates of Rs 5,000 to Rs 6,000.
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