Days after the Modi government announced a hike in minimum support price (MSP) for paddy and wheat, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday took to Twitter describing the move as putting “Band-Aid on a massive haemorrhage.”
‘Applying Band-Aid’
Terming it mere “marketing,” he compared the MSP hike with the farm loan waiver of the Karnataka government. “PM’s grand MSP increase is budgeted at just ₹15,000 crore for India’s 120 million farmers; which is like applying a Band-Aid to a massive haemorrhage.”
“To put this MSP increase in perspective: in Karnataka, we’ve waived small farmer loans of over ₹ 34,000 crore! Marketing Vs Action,” he said on Twitter.