New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- The Congress continued its attack on the farm sector Bill passed by the Lok Sabha on Thursday with senior party leader and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram saying that the Bills undermine three pillars of India's food security- MSP, Public Procurement and PDS.
In a statement issued here, Mr Chidambaram accused the Modi government of having surrendered to the corporates and traders.
''The two Farm Bills do not contain a clause that the price that the farmer will get from the private purchaser shall not be less than the MSP. Why is such a clause absent? The Bills undermine the only regulated market available to the farmer today, without creating thousands of alternative markets that will be accessible to the farm...