Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal joined the protest organised by the farmers of Punjab at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. Addressing the gathering, Kejriwal said that BJP wanted to take farming away from the farmers and give it to the big corporate companies. He demanded that the newly farm laws should be withdrawn as they are detrimental for poor farmers. Kejriwal said that the farmers of Punjab played crucial role in giving birth to Green Revolution by working hard. They made the country self-reliant, he said. "Only 6 per cent of the crop is procured at MSP across the country, whereas 100 per cent should be procured at MSP", Kejriwal said. The Chief Minister said the BJP had promised to implement the Swaminathan Committee report before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, which talks about the cost of MSP being 1.5 times more, but after winning the elections, the BJP scrapped the MSP.
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