Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav, already facing farmers’ protest, now gets pushback from Shivraj Chouhan

Farmers protest under the banner of Samyukt Kisan Morcha in Bhopal on Wednesday. (PTI) Even as Chief Minister Mohan Yadav sought to contain one of the biggest farmers’ agitations of his tenure through negotiations and the formation of a ministerial panel, the Centre on Wednesday publicly pushed back against the Madhya Pradesh government’s contention that the moong procurement crisis stemmed from inadequate approvals from New Delhi. In a detailed letter to Yadav, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan defended the Centre’s procurement policy and argued that the immediate challenge lay not with the quantum approved by the Centre but with the state’s pace of procurement. Referring to figures available with the Centre until July 29, Chouhan said Madhya Pradesh had procured only aroun