chandigarh punjab chief minister bhagwant mann on wednesday accused the centre of ignoring the state while constituting the committee for recommending minimum support price msp for cropsin a press statement mann termed it a discriminatory move as the farmers of state have been ignored because the bjp government did not want to give a platform to farmers of the state to air their views punjabs stiff opposition to the draconian farm laws had unnerved the modi government he saidthis dictatorial attitude is unacceptable and unwarranted as without punjabi farmers the committee hardly has any relevance he said adding that without the states representation the committee will be like a body without soul he saidmann said that apparently instead of aiming at farmers welfare the centre was trying to settle political scores with them by keeping the food growers of punjab out of it he said that msp was the legal right of farmers and if the centre wanted that farmers should get its benefits then the farmers of punjab should have been included in this committeemann said that without punjabi representation the committee with armchair economists at helms of affairs will not be able to do justice with the food growers of the country in general and that of punjab in particular he said that due to ever increasing input costs and low returns the farmers of the state are already reeling under huge debts he said that the msp needs to be fixed after due consultation with punjabi farmers to bail them out of the agrarian crisis the need of the hour is that the union government must include punjabi farmers in the committee so that their interests can be safeguarded he said