Democrat disagrees with rice-pledging price cut
Play
The Democrat Party Wednesday expressed opposition to the government's plan to slash ricepledging price from Bt15,000 to Bt12,000.
Democrat MP Atthawit Suwanphakdee, the spokesman of the Democrat shadow Cabinet, said the price slashing could contradict with the government’s policy, which has been announced to Parliament.
Atthawit said the Democrat legal team would study what action should be taken against the government for violating its promise in the policy.
He said price should be reduced as agreed by the National Rice Policy Committee because farmers would be affected.
The spokesman said the government should instead come up with measures to plug corruption loopholes in the ricepledging scheme because the movement that siphons the money from farmers would remain despite the reduction of price.
The Nation
