Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Thursday attacked the BJP-led Centre for allegedly not fulfilling its promises to farmers, including providing a legal guarantee for MSP, and for using force to stop protesting farmers from marching to Delhi to put forth their demands.
Addressing a press conference here, Singh also criticised the Narendra Modi government for nominating Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal to hold talks with the protesting farmer leaders, asking what he had to do with farmers and agriculture.
Two years ago, when the country’s farmers staged a protest on the outskirts of Delhi, the prime minister promised to consider legal guarantee for MSP and to fulfill their other demands, he recalled.