BKU leader Rakesh Tikait meets Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, thanks TMC govt for support to farmers’ issues
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Kolkata: Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait met West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over issues related to agriculture and local farmers’ plight on Wednesday.
During the meeting, the West Bengal Chief Minister assured Tikait of full support to the farmers’ protest against the Centre’s three controversial farm laws.
Kolkata | Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait meets West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on issues related to agriculture and local farmers pic.twitter.com/BOedBFN1hp
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Mamata Banerjee said that her party Trinamool Congress fully stands with the farmers’ movement until all the demands are met. “We have passed the resolution against the farm laws. We are with farmers, with their movement until their demands are met,” Mamata Banerjee said.
The TMC supremo further said that industries are suffering and GST is being levied on medicines. “For the last 7 months, they (Central government) didn’t bother to speak to farmers. I demand that all three farm laws are withdrawn,” Banerjee said.
In his turn, the BKU leader said, “the Chief Minister assured us that she will continue to support the farmers’ movement. We thank her for this assurance. West Bengal should work as a model state and farmers should be given more benefits.”
The Bharatiya Kisan Union leader further said that the protest will continue and urged the CM to focus on national issues which need attention.
Tikait and other farmer leaders have been agitating on Delhi’s borders for the past one year against three laws passed by the Parliament which they feel will commercialise agriculture without adequate protection to small farmers from exploitation by large retail chains and industry.
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