In an apparent bid to douse the flames early the Bengal BJP has embarked on organising state-wide rallies in support of the newly brought farm laws with senior leaders and MPs like Locket Chatterjee leading long marches in interior regions to count the prospective effects of the new bill that is being condemned by the Opposition as a law that would in the final run ruin the farmers.
The BJP took out “Krishak Suraksha Yatra” (farmers’ security rallies) throughout West Midnapore, Purulia, Bankura and Ashok Nagar in North 24 Parganas claiming the new farm bill would in the final run liberate the farmers from the hands of the middlemen and enrich them as they would be free to sell their produce to the corporate who would pay them higher prices.
“The TMC and the Left are telling the people that the farm bill will ruin the farmers but it is simply the opposite because this will liberate them from the hands of the middlemen,” Chatterjee said adding “the result of this new law would be seen in a couple of years time.” The TMC on the other hand took out long processions in Hooghly and other areas condemning the farm bill.
Meanwhile, the State BJP leadership on Thursday said that top saffron leaders like Amit Shah and JP Nadda would visit Bengal ahead of the Durga Pujas. This was decided in a meeting of Bengal BJP leaders with the national leadership, State party president Dilip Ghosh said. “Perhaps Amit Shah ji would come before the Pujas and Nadda ji would come after,” Ghosh said adding the coming of the national leaders would pep up the party rank and file.
The BJP which is aiming to capture power in the next year’s Assembly elections hopes Shah to fix a target of seats when he comes to Bengal.
Ahead of 2019 parliamentary elections Shah had said that the BJP would 22 out of 42 seats and the party actually got 19. This time round the BJP expects to get more than 200 seats in a 294-member House.