Lucknow: BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi on Saturday said farmers are suffering losses due to policies framed by ‘babus’ sitting inside AC offices and promised that after assuming power at the Centre he will revamp the mechanism of fixing Minimum Support Price (MSP).
The BJP leader said that when farmers visit markets to sell their produce, not a single government officer is present there which is why middlemen come.
“Farmers are not benefiting by the current policy, which is being decided by babus sitting inside air conditioned offices.
When farmers go to market to sell their products, no government official is present there, so middlemen come there. This is what is prevalent now,” Mr Modi said at a rally in Robertsganj in Uttar Pradesh. He promised to revamp the way Minimum Support Price is calculated.
“BJP in its manifesto has stated that it has decided to take a historic decision. After forming BJP government in Delhi, we will fix the MSP and bureaucrats will not be allowed to do as they wish. We have suggested a definite process,” he said.
Meanwhile BJP president Rajnath Singh took a dig at the AAP, saying there was no bigger ‘aam aadmi’ (common man) than Narendra Modi.
Addressing the BJP’s last press conference for the polls , Mr Singh hit out at all other parties, namely Congress, SP and BSP, but did not even name AAP whose national convenor Arvind Kejriwal is also fighting against Mr Modi.
When pointed out that why he does not consider AAP worth mentioning, Mr Singh said, “We all are aam aadmi. I am also an aam aadmi and there can not be a bigger aam aadmi than Narendra Modi whose father used to make tea and he used to sell the tea on railway platforms.”
