New Delhi, March 14 -- Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Saturday alleged that the BJP government was "sacrificing" Indian agriculture for their "own self-interest" as he accused them of evading his questions on Minimum Support Price (MSP) and the interim trade agreement with the US.

Rahul Gandhi, in a post on Facebook, expressed dissatisfaction with the answers by Bhagirath Choudhary, Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, to his unstarred questions in the Lok Sabha.

"In the Lok Sabha, I asked the government a direct question: Why has the promise of a statutory MSP--calculated at C2+50%--made to farmers in 2021, not yet been implemented? Evading a direct response, the government merely reiterated its existi...