The Congress on Friday attacked the Modi Government’s decision to hike MSP of kharif crops and lambasted the law Commission recommendations to legalise betting in sports.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “grand MSP increase” for farmers is like applying band-aid to a “massive haemorrhage”. Terming it mere “marketing”, he compared the MSP hike with the farm loan waiver of the Karnataka Government.
“PM’s grand MSP increase is budgeted at just 15,000 crore for India’s 120 million farmers; which is like applying a Band-Aid to a massive haemorrhage. To put this MSP increase in perspective: in Karnataka, we've waived small farmer loans of over 34,000 crore! Marketing Vs Action,” Rahul said on Twitter.
For his part, criticising the law Commission recommendations to legalise betting in sports, former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Manish Tiwari said legalising betting in sports will turn every paan shop into a gambler’s den. “If you legalise betting in sports you will not only spoil the sport but also turn every paan shop in the country into a ‘juye ka adda’,” Tiwari said while addressing a press conference.
“Does the BJP-NDA Government want to turn every paan shop in the country into a ‘juye ka adda’IJ Tiwari asked.