About the enforcement of the MSP, it said, “Since intermediaries play a vital role in the functioning of the market, at times they have advance contracts with farmers. In respect of all essential commodities, we should protect farmer’s interests by mandating through statutory provisions that no farmer-trader transaction should be below MSP, wherever prescribed”. It had argued that that market intervention for perishable products could also be introduced on a cost sharing basis between Centre and the state. “When the working group on consumer affairs that had the Chief Ministers of various states as its members had recommended about MSP for farmers’ crop, then why government is running from it?” questioned farm union leader, Sukhdev Singh Kokrikalan, General Secretary, Bharti Kisan Union (BKU) (Ugrahan).