Farm Laws
Mamata govt in West Bengal to table anti-farm laws resolution in assembly today
Kolkata/IBNS: The Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal will on Thursday table a resolution against the Centre's new contentious farm laws in the state assembly.
The resolution will be tabled on the second of the two-day assembly session which began on Jan 27.
West Bengal will become the sixth state after Dehi, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Kerala to pass a similar resolution against the Narendra Modi government's agricultural reforms that have stirred protests in and around the national capital.
In an interview with India Today on Wednesday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said, "Farmers' movement is always very powerful..this is a grassroots movement..why are you blaming the farmers?"
"The Prime Minister is not the leader of BJP, he is the leader of the country...let us withdraw this," she added in the television interview.
Though thousands of farmers have camped at the Delhi-Haryana border since Nov 26, 2020 in protest against the farm laws, the agitation took an ugly, violent turn on Jan 26, 2021.
The tractor rally, which was called by the protesters, turned violent as several farmers broke police barricades, vandalised government properties and stormed into the Red Fort to implant a Sikh flag, injuring over 100 police personnel and causing the death of one peasant.
At least 22 First Information Reports (FIRs) have been lodged in connection with the violence, the Delhi Police said.
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