India's Modi urges farmers to end protests over agriculture laws
Reuters
February 8, 2021 15:35 MYT
February 8, 2021 15:35 MYT
Farmers shout slogans as they take part in a three-hour "chakka jam" or road blockade, as part of protests against farm laws on a highway on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, February 6, 2021. REUTERS pic
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday urged farmers to end their over two-month long protest against agricultural reforms, assuring them that a mechanism of floor prices for key crops would remain in place.
Demanding the repeal of three new farm laws that they say will hurt them to the benefit of large corporations and allow the government to discontinue buying food grains at a minimum support price (MSP), tens of thousands of farmers have been camped on the outskirts of Delhi since late 2020.
"MSP was there. MSP is there. MSP will remain in the future," Modi told lawmakers.