India, Feb. 13 -- The Government of India has issued a release:
Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare, and Rural Development, Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan today categorically stated in the Rajya Sabha while replying to questions raised by Members of Parliament that the government, led by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, is not in power for the sake of authority, but for the comprehensive development of farmers, India's villages and the poor. The Union Minister emphasised that a farmer is not merely an 'annadata' (food provider) but a 'jeevandata' (life giver) - "not God, but certainly no less than God". With this conviction, policies such as the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund (AIF), Minimum Support Price (MSP), Self-Reliance i...