Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a Krishak Kalyan Samavesh (farmer's welfare rally) on Monday at Midnapore town in West Bengal.
The prime focus of the address will be on the Centre's recent decision to increase the Minimum Support Price (MSP) of Kharif crops.
West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Dilip Ghosh said, "The prime minister's rally in Midnapore proves that Bengal is one of their top priority states in the Lok Sabha poll."
The BJP has made steady inroads in various districts of West Bengal and has emerged as the main opposition party in the state after the recent panchayat elections and by-polls.
Earlier on Sunday, BJP national secretary Rahul Sinha said that the PM’s meeting would be a historic event.
"Narendra Modi’s meeting at Midnapore will create history. The ruling party had been saying a lot so far and trying to belittle BJP. This will be a fitting reply to them. After Amit Shah’s meeting at Purulia, TMC’s counter meeting at that place had become a lacklustre affair. After Modi’s meeting on July 16, Mamata’s July 21 meeting will meet the same fate," Sinha said on Sunday after doing a recce of the venue.
The Central Government on July 4 approved the proposal to hike MSP by 50 per cent for 14 Kharif crops for the year 2018-19.
The meeting chaired by Prime Minister Modi approved the proposal made by Union Minister Arun Jaitley in the Budget 2018 of hiking the support price by one-and-a-half times of the production cost for Kharif crops.
MSP is referred to a price at which the government buys crops from the farmers, to protect agriculture producers from fall in farm prices.
The saffron party has made steady inroads in various districts of West Bengal and has emerged as the main opposition in the state after the recent panchayat elections and bypolls.
The party is making all efforts to increase its tally in the next general election from the current two.
(With ANI inputs)
