JOIN USBengal CM Mamata Banerjee threatens countrywide agitation if new farm laws not withdrawn
Raising her pitch against the Centre over the ongoing farmers’ agitation West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said that she would launch a countrywide agitation if the new farm laws were not withdrawn.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo lashed out at the Centre over several issues in a series of tweets and accused it of trying to sell Government organizations such as the Railways, Air India and BSNL. She also said that people must allow the country to be transformed into BJP’s private property.
“I am very much concerned about the farmers, their lives and livelihood. GOI must withdraw the anti-farmer bills. If they do not do so immediately we will agitate throughout the state and the country. From the very start, we have been strongly opposing these anti-farmer bills,” tweeted Mamata.
The TMC supremo also made it clear that she would take the Centre head on over the Essential Commodities Act and the consequent price rise of commodities of daily use. She demanded that the Centre must withdraw the “ anti-people law.”
I am very much concerned about the farmers, their lives and livelihood. GOI must withdraw the anti-farmer bills. If they do not do so immediately we will agitate throughout the state and the country. From the very start, we have been strongly opposing these anti-farmer bills.
— Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) December 3, 2020
“We have called a meeting of the All India Trinamool Congress on Friday, December 4. We will discuss how the Essential Commodities Act is impacting common people and resulting in skyrocketing prices. The central government must withdraw this anti-people law,” tweeted Mamata.
She accused the Centre of following an “ill-conceived” disinvestment and privatization policy adding that it was trying to make the nation a private property of the BJP.
“The GOI is selling everything. You cannot sell Railways, Air India, Coal, BSNL, BHEL, banks, defence, etc. Withdraw ill-conceived disinvestment & privatization policy. We must not allow treasures of our nation to be transformed into the BJP party’s personal assets,” stated Mamata in a tweet.
Her comments come at a time when the TMC and the BJP were gearing up for the Assembly elections next year where the rural voters of West Bengal who comprise of nearly 60% of the state’s total voters would be a deciding factor. A large section of the rural population in the state was engaged in farming.