Accept farmers’ demand on MSP, movement won't end without it, Varun Gandhi urges Modi

New Delhi, November 19

BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Saturday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi to accept the farmers' demand for statutory MSP guarantee for their crops, saying their movement wouldn't end without it.

In a letter to the prime minister, the MP from Pilibhit in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh also asked him to take action against Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra for the violence in Lakhmipur Kheri without taking his name.

Gandhi thanked Modi for repealing the three farm laws. "If this decision had been taken earlier, innocent lives would not have been lost," he added, a day after Modi announced the rollback of the three farm laws.

In his letter, Gandhi underscored the need to accept the farmers' demand on minimum support price (MSP).

"This movement will not end without the resolution of this demand and there will be widespread anger amongst them, which will continue to emerge in one form or the other. Therefore, it is important for the farmers to get the statutory guarantee of MSP for their crops," he wrote.

He said the legal binding on MSP would give sizeable economic security cover to farmers.

"My humble request to you is that the government must immediately accept this demand in the interest of our nation."

Gandhi described the Lakhimpur incident in which several farmers were killed as heartbreaking and a "blemish on our democracy". PTI  

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