Shiromani Akali Dal MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal speaks in the Lok Sabha during the ongoing Budget Session of Parliament in New Delhi on Tuesday
- March 10, 2021
- Updated: 01:34 am
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Former union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today said it was increasingly becoming clear that the central government wanted to end assured government procurement on minimum support price (msp) for food grains from the forthcoming wheat harvesting season itself by putting a new condition of uploading of land records for procurement.
Talking to newsmen here, Mrs Harsimrat Badal, who had put up a question relating to FCI asking for land record details for providing e-payment directly to farmers, said "this is a discriminatory step against farmers of Punjab who brought in the green revolution in the country and made it food surplus". She said the hidden agenda was to limit procurement from Punjab by opening it to all farmers who upload their land records.
Mrs Badal said the Congress government in Punjab was hand in glove with the centre on this issue. "This has been made clear by union minister Piyush Goyal who quoted a document showing the Punjab finance minister as well as the food and supplies minister had given their go ahead to the condition for making uploading of land records mandatory for government procurement in the State. The Punjab government also
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