Vijayawada, Nov. 30 -- YSRCP President and former Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has instructed the party's MPs to strongly raise the most urgent public issues of Andhra Pradesh during the Parliament session beginning on Monday.

He told the party MPs that the fight in the Parliament must centre on the severe distress facing farmers due to cyclone damage and the collapse of Minimum Support Price across major crops, which has pushed the agriculture sector into a dangerous crisis.

The Ex-CM asked his MPs to raise the issue of fallen prices of paddy, maize, black gram, cotton, red gram, banana, mirchi and mango, pushing farmers into extreme hardship. He told his MPs to insist on emergency relief funds and immediate restoration of assured...