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New Delhi: Former agriculture minister Sompal Shastri, who held office when Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the prime minister, has told the Narendra Modi government that it should concede to the protesting farmer unionsâ prime demand on Minimum Support Price (MSP) to end the impasse, ThePrint has learnt.
Shastri, who met Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar over the weekend, advised the government that this can be done through an independent committee appointed by the Supreme Court.Â
Farmers fear that MSP will not be enforced once private
mandis come up following the implementation of the new laws.Â
During his meeting with Tomar, sources in the BJP said, Shastri emphasised that there is a trust deficit between the government and the farmers, which he believes is the root cause of the current protests and can be bridged by involving the Supreme Court in the negotiations.Â