Congress MP P Chidambaram hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP spokespersons over the farm bills controversy Saturday morning, accusing them of "maliciously" distorting the party's 2019 manifesto amid a political row between the ruling party and the opposition on this issue. Ahead of elections last year the Congress suggested changes to farm laws that would see the Agricultural Market Produce Committees (AMPC) Act abolished - something one of the bills proposed by the Narendra Modi government does and something pointed out by the BJP as it defends those bills.