The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) on Tuesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come up with a law on minimum support price (MSP) if he was really serious about it.

Reacting to Modi’s statement made in the Rajya Sabha on Monday, the tribal outfit snubbed him for defaming protesting farmers by calling them Andolanjivi.

Talking to the media at the party office, JMM’s general secretary Supriyo Bhattacharjee said, “Yesterday (Monday), the PM said ‘MSP tha, MSP hai aur MSP rahega’ (MSP was there, is in force and will be there). We welcome it. So, if the PM is serious on his words, we demand his government to bring a law on MSP in the ongoing Budget Session. The entire protest by farmers in the country against the farm laws is to demand for a dedicated law on MSP. Let’s bring it and prove your good intentions.”

The party said that by invoking former PM Manmohan Singh’s name and dubbing protesters as Andolanjivi, the PM has again exhibited that they are trying to run away from addressing the real concerns and mislead people.

“Modi-ji said that he did what the UPA government under Manmohan Singh wanted to do. Manmohan Singh-ji never brought such controversial laws, you did. Even then if you say that BJP government did what UPA regime wanted to do, then why not BJP rechristens its name as BJP-Congress party,” he mocked,

“If all protestors (farmers) are Andolanjivi, BJP must never stage any protest anywhere,” he said, adding that rather than trying to solve the impasse, the entire government machinery is focused on discrediting a public movement against the anti-farmer and anti-people policies of the Centre.