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Nagpur: Farm task force head Kishore Tiwari has slammed the Congress-NCP and Shetkari Sanghatana for their double standards on core issues of farming. "These parties have no moral authority to demand implementation of MS Swaminathan Commission report," Tiwari said in a statement on Monday. "But this goes against the grain of the Dunkel draft of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that the government has accepted. As the Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, then, consigned the Swaminathan report to the dustbin," Tiwari alleged.One of the important recommendations of Swaminathan was to to revise minimum support prices to factor in 50% as farmer's profit over and above his input costs. "From 2004 to 2014 when the Congress was in power at the centre..