New Delhi, May 30 -- A day after the Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved a raise in minimum support prices (MSPs) for key kharif or summer-sown crops, the Congress accused the government of cheating farmers. According to Congress general secretary Randeep Surjewala, the government said that it has given MSP according to the C2+50% formula, but the farmers are not even recovering their cost. With the "nominal increase in MSP, it is not even offsetting the inflation rate", he added. Surjewala termed the MSP as "Maximum Suffering for Producers" and alleged that the government announced MSP, but is hardly buying crops at that rate, following which farmers are suffering huge losses. He also alleged that in BJP-ruled ...