Mamata demands withdrawal of ‘anti-people’ farm laws, attacks BJP

Kolkata, Dec 7 : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday demanded that the Centre should immediately withdraw the “anti-people” farm laws or step down. She said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government should not continue in power after sacrificing the rights of the farmers.
“The BJP government should immediately withdraw the farm bills or step down from power at the Centre. It has no rights to continue to remain in power after sacrificing the rights of the farmers,” Banerjee said while addressing a mega rally at the Midnapore College Ground in the district.
Vegetables were seen placed on the podium from where she was delivering her speech.
“I have not forgotten Singur, I have not forgotten Nandigram. I have full support to farmers,” she said while referring to her 26-day long hunger strike in 2006 over the forcible farmland acquisition for Tata Motors’ small car factory in Singur.
The Trinamool Congress chief said that she would rather stay in jail than “remain silent or put up with BJP’s misrule”.
Banerjee also slammed the BJP saying it is a party of “outsiders”. “I will never allow the saffron camp to take control of Bengal. I urge people of Bengal to resist any such attempt by the outsiders,” she said.