Centre rubbing salt into their wounds: Punjab CM

Chandigarh, September 8

Terming the Union Cabinet’s measly wheat MSP hike as pathetic, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday slammed the central government for “rubbing salt into the wounds of the beleaguered farmers”, who have been out on the roads agitating against the farm laws for the past 10 months.

At a time when India’s agriculture sector is passing through a distress phase and the farmers are agitating for a remunerative MSP, the BJP-led Government of India has played a cruel joke on the ‘annadatas’, said the Chief Minister. Demanding an MSP of wheat to be fixed at Rs 2,830 per quintal (as against Rs 2,015/quintal announced today), Capt Amarinder said the farmers should not be forced to subsidise the consumers, which they have been doing since long. — TNS