Farmers in West Bengal s rice bowl want better price for their produce
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In Purba Bardhaman, once a bastion of the CPI-M, the Trinamool Congress had won 14 of the 16 seats in the last assembly election. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the TMC led in 14 assembly segments. Eight of the 16 seats vote on Saturday.
In Bhatar, Chaitali Roy whose farmer husband died in 2018 is still waiting for compensation from the government.
Three years ago, the day when 31-year-old Chaitali Roy s husband Subhash, a paddy farmer, consumed pesticide because he was unable to pay Rs 30,000 he had borrowed from money lenders, she was in her mother s house in the neighbouring village of Banpash.