Kolkata: A section of protesting farmers, demanding the repeal of three new controversial farm bills, have urged West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee to join them after she again reached out to them with her absolute support on the occasion of Kisan Diwas.
Sending five MPs of her party to the protest site at Singhu border near Delhi, the Trinamool Congress supremo also spoke to the farmers over the phone for the second time within three weeks in her bid to make the burning issue a poll plank against the BJP in the next year’s Assembly Election in the state.
Didi’s party stated, “Many farmers in small groups had an interaction on the telephone with Mamata Banerjee who assured them of her full solidarity with their movement against the Centre’s new farm laws. They shared their demand: the centre must withdraw the farmer bills.”
