The Fact News Service
Chandigarh, October 26
As the Centre’s new farm laws continue to generate political heat, Punjab food and civil supplies Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu has rejected the demand of opposition parties that the state should commit itself to buy any leftover stocks of wheat and paddy at the minimum support price.
After supporting the Congress government’s four Bills to blunt the Centre’s farm laws in the Vidhan Sabha, Aam Aadmi Party later demanded that the state government should commit itself to purchase crops of Punjab farmers on MSP if central purchase agencies decide to withdraw from the present system.
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