While West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is on a Goa tour expanding the Trinamool Congress, back home, the BJP has initiated a three-day pro-farmer agitation in Singur with a focus on rural Bengal. After the agitation, the party’s farmer wing will form farmers’ committees in Bengal’s villages. A delegation with demands will try to meet the chief minister and in
Taking a cue from Trinamool’s playbook, the Bharatiya Janata Kisan Morcha (BJKM), a BJP affiliate representing farmers, intends to hold a three-day-long dharna (December 14-16) in Singur, 40 kilometres from Kolkata. BJKM has said that the unwillingness of the ruling Trinamool or the local administration will not deter supporters from holding the programme. Singur is the
Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday said that the BJP farmer’s wing, Bharatiya Janata Kisan Morcha (BJKM), will protest at Singur over the alleged atrocities of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government over farmers from December 14-16.