Mamata Banerjee expressed full support for MPs protesting against farm bills (File)
Calcutta:
Condemning the BJP for ‘Black Sunday’ when it ‘forcibly’ passed controversial agriculture bills, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today announced that Trinamool Congress will descend in the streets from Tuesday on the issue.
She also expressed full support for MPs protesting against the bills inside and outside the House.
“The way the Farmers Bills were passed,” I said, chi BJP chi (shame BJP shame). The BJP is a disgrace for the country. Shame, shame on the BJP for the way you grabbed Farmers’ Rights, ”Ms. Banerjee said at a press meeting in Kolkata this afternoon.
“We are going to ring bells and blow conch shells and tell people that we don’t need this BJP government anymore. This BJP government must go. This BJP government is a government of shame. This central BJP government is a ‘Chi-Chi“government. If people ask today, Emperor, where are your clothes, how will you answer, ”she added.
Chief Minister said Trinamool Mahila’s Congress will sit dharna at Gandhi Statue in Calcutta tomorrow and congratulated MPs protesting in Delhi in front of Gandhi Statue in Parliament Complex. She then spoke by phone with the protesting MPs.
Ms Banerjee’s outrage was sparked not only by the passing of the farm bills, but also because two of her MPs from Rajya Sabha were suspended for the remainder of the term for protesting against it.
Derek O’Brien and Dola Sen are among eight MPs suspended yesterday for “misconduct” when farm bills were raised in Rajya Sabha. When the Deputy Speaker rejected the opposition’s demand for a split or a vote on the bills, Mr. O’Brien and other MPs rushed to the House well, copies of the bill were torn and thrown into the air and Mr. O’Brien allegedly tore up the regulations, which the member denied.
Not just farm bills, Ms. Banerjee also called for protests against labor bills.
“I strongly condemn the tactics used to forcefully pass farmer bills, bulldozing state governments and wresting farmer and worker rights. On behalf of farmers and workers, I urge them students to come forward. People must unite. ” she says.
Breaking with the past, Mamata Banerjee attacked the BJP in the press meeting she addressed today from the Chief Minister’s office at the Secretary of State. Previously, she made a point of not naming political parties and raising political questions from there.
