70% want MSP for milk, fruits, eggs
23-November-2021

Respondents in an IANS-CVoter snap poll were asked if they would agree
with a similar demand made by other farmers for legally guaranteed MSP
on food items like milk, fruits, vegetables, eggs, chicken and the like.
Close
to 70 per cent of the respondents made it clear they would agree with
this demand if it came up. More than 63 per cent of NDA supporters
agreed with this hypothetical demand.
IANS-CVoter conducted a
snap poll across India to find out what ordinary Indians think about the
demand by farm leaders that Parliament must pass a new law providing
legal guarantee to minimum support price. As of today, the government
provides MSP for 23 crops.
More than 61 per cent of the
respondents seemed to agree with the demand for legally guaranteed MSP,
with just 21 per cent opposed to it. Expectedly, a higher share of
opposition voters supported this demand than NDA voters. But more than
54 per cent of NDA supporters agreed with the demand.
Concerns have been raised about the ability of the government to raise the resources and the finances to buy all food grains and horticulture products at legally guaranteed prices. But the respondents did not seem to share this worry.
62.6 per cent suggested that the government can afford to pay legally guaranteed MSP for all crops. A majority of opposition supporters also agreed.
Is India, then, witnessing the return of populism with a vengeance? - IANS
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