Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee with farmer leaders at state secretariat Nabanna on Wednesday. (News18)
At a gathering with farmer leaders like Rakesh Tikait and Yudhvir Singh, the TMC chief mentioned that there needs to be a platform the place states might converse on coverage points.
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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday assured farmer leaders led by Rakesh Tikait and Yudhvir Singh of assist to their agitation towards the brand new agriculture legal guidelines. At a gathering with the farmer leaders right here in the course of the day, the TMC chief mentioned that there needs to be a platform the place states might converse on coverage points.
“Bulldozing states is not good for the federal structure,” she mentioned. Banerjee’s assist for the north India-based farmers’ unions comes inside days of the Trinamool Congress saying that the occasion would unfold its footprints exterior West Bengal’s geographical boundaries.
The Bhartiya Kisan Union led by Tikait and Singh had supported the ‘No vote for BJP’ marketing campaign forward of the West Bengal meeting elections and have plans to prolong that in different upcoming state elections as effectively. Banerjee introduced after the assembly that her “support for the farmers’ movement will be there” and added in an apparent jibe on the Centre that “India is hungrily waiting for policies which help in fighting COVID-19, assist farmers and industry.” The chief minister rhetorically requested, “…why is it so difficult to talk to the farmers?” She was referring to the breakdown in communication between the Centre and the farmers who’ve been tenting at Delhi’s borders for the previous one 12 months towards three farm legal guidelines handed by the Parliament.
The agitators really feel the brand new legal guidelines will commercialise agriculture with out sufficient safety to small farmers from exploitation by giant retail chains and trade. “The BJP rule has been disastrous for all sectors from healthcare to farmers to industry. India is suffering…we are facing both natural and political disasters,” Banerjee mentioned.
The chief minister mentioned that the agriculturist leaders have requested her to speak to different state leaders on the farmers’ difficulty and organise a dialogue with farmers’ unions. “The farmers’ movement is not just for Punjab, Haryana or Uttar Pradesh. It is for the whole country,” she mentioned.
Banerjee additionally mentioned that it was needed for states to come collectively to talk about coverage points and stand collectively towards injustice.
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