New Delhi:  The Congress has charged the BJP-led government at the Centre with betraying farmers by not providing them 50 per cent plus minimum support price for their produce.

Congress spokesperson RPN Singh said that before coming to power Prime Minister NarendraModi and the BJP had promised to give farmers 50 per cent plus MSP but is now accuse dithering from doing so, even after four years in power.

He said the BJP had also mentioned this promise in their manifesto for the 2014 LokSabha polls but has gone back on it.

Singh said that prime minister Modi in 2014, during elections, had made five big promises -- providing two crore jobs each year, giving farmers 50 per cent plus MSP for their produce, depositing 15 lakh into each Indian's bank account after getting back blackmoney stashed abroad, eradicating corruption from the root and taking strong measures at the border to ensure national security.

"Today, four years after he assumed power, the PM has not kept one of the promises...Farmers, who are the backbone of our country, are suffering and are forced to commit suicides after facing apathy at the hands of the BJP government," he told reporters.

Singh claimed that while the average growth in agriculture sector during the 10 years of UPA government was 4 per cent, under the BJP-led dispensation it has shown a growth of only 1.9 per cent in October 2017, as per a government report.

He said that even rural wages that grew 17 per cent during the UPA government were currently growing by 6.5 per cent.

Singh claimed that farmers were suffering as they are either beaten up or fired upon in BJP-ruled states.