BJP claiming ‘fake credit’ for raising land acquisition compensation for farmers; law made by UPA govt, says Congress

The Congress connected Thursday (April 23, 2026) alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) authorities successful Madhya Pradesh was claiming “fake credit” for doubling the onshore acquisition compensation for farmers successful agrarian areas, arsenic the proviso had been made by erstwhile Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s UPA authorities astatine the centre nether the onshore acquisition instrumentality successful 2013. 

On Wednesday, the Madhya Pradesh Cabinet approved an summation successful the multiplication origin applicable to onshore acquisition successful agrarian areas from 1.0 to 2.0. to supply farmers with compensation up to 4 times the marketplace price, alternatively of the existing treble price, with Chief Minister Mohan Yadav terming the determination a “major determination successful the involvement of farmers”.