New Delhi : While responding to the discussion on grants of the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare in the Rajya Sabha, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan took the Congress to task. While counting the achievements of the Modi government in the last ten years, he said that farmers are not vote banks for us, they are God.

Anti-farmer sentiment is in the DNA of Congress: Shivraj Singh Chouhan

At the same time, citing references from the tenure of the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to the UPA government, he alleged that anti-farmerism is in the DNA of the Congress. Responding to the discussion on his ministry's grants in the Rajya Sabha on Friday, Shivraj said, "I wanted to say my point directly, but when Congress member Randeep Surjewala started the discussion, he provoked me. We do not provoke anyone and if someone provokes us, we do not let him go."

Surjewala remembered Shakuni. Chausar, Chakravyuh and all these words are related to Adharma. Shakuni was a symbol of deceit, fraud and fraud. Chakravyuh means to surround and kill. Why does Congress remember Chakravyuh and Chausar? When we go to the Mahabharata period, we remember Lord Krishna. Who did the injustice, adharma and cheating? Anti-farmer sentiments are in the DNA of Congress. - Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Why did Shivraj remember Jawaharlal Nehru?

Shivraj said that this is not from today. Congress's priorities have been wrong since the beginning. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru went to Russia and when he came back after seeing the model there, he said to implement it. Bharat Ratna Chaudhary Charan Singh refused. He said that the circumstances in India are completely different. Nehru adorned the post of Prime Minister for 17 years and forced India to eat America's rotten red wheat.

Agriculture Minister mentioned the UPA regime

During the time of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, levy was forcibly collected from farmers. The stored grain was taken away. Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi also talked about agriculture price policy, but did not take any steps to increase the income of farmers. Then liberalization started, PV Narasimha was the PM and Manmohan Singh was the Finance Minister, but even at that time, delicensing of agriculture related industries was not done.

Referring to the UPA regime, the Agriculture Minister said that what to say about the period from 2004 to 2014. At that time, India was known as a country full of scams. Then a bright sun in the form of Narendra Modi rose on the political horizon of India, who filled the entire country with hope.

What did the Agriculture Minister say on farmer crop insurance?

On the question raised by Congress on farmer crop insurance, he said that during the Congress regime, the unit of crop insurance scheme was tehsil, meaning if the crop of one village gets spoiled, then the farmers should pray that the crop of the entire tehsil gets spoiled, whereas experts from other countries are coming to study the farmer crop insurance scheme started by PM Modi.

Attacked Congress on MSP

When the Congress made the MSP law an issue, he said that an elephant has different teeth for showing and different teeth for eating. When the Congress was in power, why did it not work on the recommendations of the Swaminathan Commission? The Modi government worked on this too.