Chandigarh, March 30 -- Former Haryana minister and Rajya Sabha member, Randeep Singh Surjewala, on Sunday accused the BJP government at the Centre and in Haryana of deliberately creating hurdles in the procurement of wheat and mustard crops at minimum support price (MSP).

At a briefing, the Congress leader alleged that the latest procurement guidelines issued by the Haryana government were arbitrary and draconian and designed to "harass farmers and reduce procurement targets". Surjewala alleged that after being forced to repeal the three agri-marketing laws, the BJP is now trying to weaken the MSP based procurement mechanism.

Citing new conditions imposed on farmers, Surjewala said that the stipulations like identification of transport...