Congress govt to provide legal guarantee for MSP: Mallikarjun Kharge

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday said that if his party returns to power its government would provide legal guarantee to Minimum Support Price MSP for crops in the interest of farmersThe statement comes amid farmers Delhi Chalo agitation This was his partys first guarantee ahead of the Lok Sabha elections he saidSpeaking during Congress leader Rahul Gandhis Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Ambikapur the headquarter of Surguja district of Chhattisgarh Kharge also targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying the people should not believe Modis guarantees newswire PTI reportedI would like to announce from Chhattisgarh that legal guarantee to MSP with extensive procurement of crops for farmers as our guarantee for upcoming Lok Sabha polls If we come to power then this guarantee will definitely be implemented It is our first guarantee he saidThe farmers who have been fighting for their rights on the Delhi border iron spikes were laid on the road and cement walls were placed to stop them What kind of democracy is this Cant anyone fight for their rights he askedOne of the demands of the farmers participating in the Delhi Chalo march is enactment of a law guaranteeing MSP for cropsKharge also claimed that private insurance companies earned a profit of Rs 40000 crore in the last 10 years through the PM crop insurance scheme and said Modi ji does not care about farmers and poor rather he only pays attention to the richHe keeps on identifying himself as backward poor and a tea seller the Congress chief claimedYou Modi sell tea or anything else but dont sell the country and PSUs he addedModi does not remember the backward community when he gives ports roads and mines to Adani he addedKharge claimed that the BJP started using the Modi ki guarantee term copying the Congress which stormed to power in Karnataka and other states by giving guaranteesWe call our promises as Congress guarantee but they call them as Modis guarantee He Modi always talks about himself If a person has so much ego then think whether he believes in democracy or not He only works for himself and the person who works for himself is like a dictator and Hitler not the one who believes in democracy he saidModi gave the guarantee of depositing Rs 15 lakh into the bank accounts of every citizen generating 2 crores of employment every year and doubling farmers income he saidHas he fulfilled them The man who has spoken lies in 2014 and 2019 is again giving guarantees now Dont trust in his guarantees He has been working to finish the people and mislead them he saidI have been saying he is jhuthon ke sardar chieftain of liars and his promises are bogus But some didnt understand it and today they have been facing trouble he saidClaiming that PM Modis agenda is to abuse Congress Kharge said he sometimes abuses Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and says a family has looted the countryAfter Rajiv Gandhi no member of his family either became a PM or a minister Kharge saidHe Modi tries to instigate people But please dont fall in his trap otherwise democracy and the country will be destroyed he saidHe accused the BJP of dividing the countryModi ji and his government seeks votes in the name of OBCs religion and God Religion should not be brought into politics as people belonging to different faiths live in the country By doing so Modi ji wants to divide the country he saidHe also targeted the newlyelected BJP government in Chhattisgarh for allegedly giving permission to chop off 15000 trees for a coal mine project in the biodiversity rich Hasdeo regionOn Monday Rahul ji met members of Hasdeo Bachao Andolan Samiti and assured to extend support to them he addedThe Congress is the party of the poor while the BJP is the party of the rich he claimed With inputs from PTI