Farm bills: MSP and mandis will stay, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday reassured farmers that the government purchase of their produce coupled with the minimum support price mechanism will continue and asserted that the farm sector reform bills passed by Parliament will change the economic condition of the farmers.

With opposition parties vehemently criticising the legislations as "anti-farmers", PM Narendra Modi again mounted a strong defence of these measures, saying farmers will now have the freedom to sell their produce at a place and price of their choice.