[Marxistindia] MSP Hike: Fraudulent Claims

[news from the cpi(m)]

July 5, 2018

Press Statement

 

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following  statement:

 

MSP Hike: Fraudulent Claims

 

The Central Government has made fraudulent claims that the announced hike in
prices of the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy and other crops is
fulfillment of the promise for implementation of the Swaminathan Commission
recommendations. The Commission had recommended how the cost of production
should be calculated and that the MSP should be fixed on this basis with a
50 per cent profit margin for farmers.

 

In a cruel joke on farmers, burdened by high debt because of increasing
costs of production, the Modi Government has deliberately used a measurement
of costs which omits important aspects thus manipulating the cost
calculation and bringing it down to levels even lower than what the State
Governments including BJP ruled State Governments had proposed last year and
less than the actual cost to the farmer.

 

Calculations of what the farmer should get according to the Swaminathan
Commission recommendations and what the Modi Government has announced shows
a huge gap and losses to the farmers ranging from 600 rupees for paddy to
between 1800 and 2000 rupees for various pulses, groundnut and sugarcane.

 

Further, there is no guarantee that the farmers will get even this price as
the procurement operations of the central government are being deliberately
cut forcing farmers to sell at distress prices.

 

This is nothing but a desperate bid to deflect the growing discontent among
farmers against the Modi Government in an election year. The CPI(M) will
expose this fraud on the farmers and will extend support to all the
struggles of farmers, the majority of whom are small and middle peasants for
the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission recommendations and other
legitimate demands.

 

 

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