BJP president J P Nadda said on Thursday that middlemen, not farmers, are behind the agitation against farm laws in Punjab while asserting that the Narendra Modi government
has freed peasants from the “slavery” of selling their produce to predesignated markets and traders.
Addressing a group of farmers from Delhi and nearby villages at the BJP headquarters here, Nadda also took a swipe at West Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for not implementing in her state the Center’s scheme to deposit Rs 6,000 into every farmer’s account under the ‘Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana’.
She has been creating hurdles in farmers’ development, but this will not go on for long, he said and stressed that the BJP will come to power in the state next year and implement the scheme.
The Assembly polls in West Bengal are due in the first half of the next year.