RSS affiliate Bhartiya Kisan Sangh to protest today, wants legal guarantee on MSP

Vibha Sharma

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 7

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-affiliate Bhartiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) will be holding a nationwide agitation tomorrow in support of their demand for a stringent law on minimum support price for all crops to ensure profitable remuneration to farmers.

BKS general secretary Badri Narayan Chaudhary said they had served a 10-day ultimatum on the Union Government, failing which they would announce their next course. The steps may include “pushing a private member’s Bill in Parliament”, he said.

He said their demands were focused on a getting profitable support price for farmers.

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