Farmers protesting over MSP and farm laws clash with police at Mohali-Chandigarh border
Farmers marching towards Chandigarh’s Raj Bhavan clashed with police at the Mohali border as authorities used tear gas and water cannons to stop protesters.
Farmers marching towards Chandigarh’s Raj Bhavan clashed with police at the Mohali border as authorities used tear gas and water cannons to stop protesters.
“The government has increased the MSP of Kharif crops for Marketing Season 2026-27 to ensure remunerative prices to the growers for their produce,” Vaishnaw said.
A prominent voice of Delhi’s rural belt Chaudhary Surender Solanki on Friday welcomed the government’s decision to resume procurement of wheat from the farmers of the national capital at Minimum Support Price (MSP), something that had not happened for a couple of years.
A war of words has erupted between Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, with the former accusing the BJP-led Union government of being anti-farmer and of directing the discontinuation of the bonus above the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for paddy.
HAFED has termed a news item published in a leading national Hindi daily on April 1, 2026, regarding the incorrect Minimum Support Price (MSP) of sunflower seed mentioned in procurement instructions issued by HAFED, as misleading and far removed from the facts.
Haryana Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister Shyam Singh Rana on Monday said Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann should follow his Haryana counterpart and promptly resolve the issues of protesting farmers.
The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre and the Punjab government to ensure necessary medical aid to the convener of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political), Jagjit Singh Dallewal, who is on a fast-unto-death at the Khanouri border in support of farmers agitating for a legal guarantee on minimum support price for crops.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to entertain a public interest plea seeking direction to immediately clear the blockades of National as well as State Highways in the Punjab and Haryana, and to ensure smooth passage for the general public.
Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has claimed that the BJP has always failed to give DAP to farmers at the time of sowing, urea at the time of irrigation and MSP at the time of harvesting. This is the reason why farmers have to protest again and again for their demands.
“The BJP government should consider the demands of the farmers who marched to Delhi. Congress has also repeatedly raised this demand before the government and it was also mentioned in the party's election manifesto,” the Congress leader said.
