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 All-India Kisan Sabha 

leader Hannan Mollah said that such incremental increase in prices would not make a difference.

He dismissed the announcement as an effort to hoodwink  आँख में धूल झोंकना the farmers.

 “Fertilizers are selling at the price of gold and such marginal increases will not make a dent,” he said.

No statutory compulsion

Krantikari Kisan Union leader Darshan Pal Singh said the fundamental problem still remained, that the MSP was not a statutory compulsion.

“The government, at the end of the day, only procures four crops and that too from select States. 

We have been saying that the minimum bidding for the crop should begin from the MSP onwards. 

We shall begin the second round of our agitation for this soon,” he said.

The increase have been announced at a time when the government is struggling to procure crops in the wake of a high demand because of global supply disruption.

हाई रेट

 Farmers are selling crops in the open market since they are getting better rates.

The Congress, meanwhile, said the rate of increase of MSP by the Narendra Modi government was far lower than what was done during the United Progressive Alliance regime.

Sharing comparative statistics, Rajya Sabha member and senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said, “The Prime Minister promised to double farmers’ income by 2022…that has remained a jumla.

 All he has managed to do is increase their costs. 

The numbers show how the UPA government consistently stood by the farmers and expose the hollow claims of the BJP.”

According to the chart he produced, the increase for paddy,

 for example, from 2005-06 to 2013-14 was 130%, while the increase from 2014-15 to 2022-23 under the BJP government, is 50%.

In all the 14 crops that were compared, the rate of hike during the UPA was higher than that of the BJP government.