The Left and the Congress on Tuesday took out tractor and foot rallies in West Bengal protesting alleged “police atrocities” on the agitating farmers in Delhi.
While the Congress held a number of road blockades, the Left parties took out long marches in Kolkata, Burdwan and other places.
“The way the police lathi-charged and tear-gassed the agitating famers at the instance of the Central Government and Home Minister Amit Shah is to be condemned in strongest possible words… we are protesting this attack on the farmers and demanding immediate rollback of the three draconian anti-farm laws,” Congress Lok Sabha leader and Pradesh Congress chief Adhir Chowdhury said.
Elsewhere the peasants' front of the CPI(M) and other Left parties held rallies with tractors, motorcycles, auto-rickshaws across all the 23 districts, demanding withdrawal of the anti-farm laws. Long rallies were taken out in East Burdwan, Hooghly, Murshidabad and East Midnapore districts.
In Kolkata CPI(M) politburo members including Left Front chairman Biman Bose and party state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra on Tuesday led a huge road show. Members of the Sikh community too took part in the rally.
CPI(M) Peasants’ front leader Amal Haldar, said, “More than 600 tractors and two thousand motorcycles took part in the rally that passed through Burdwan town,” adding the BJP and the TMC will be rejected by the farmers throughout the country.
“The Central Government has been suppressing the farmers in the interest of the big corporate houses ... but this cannot go on for eternity … the farmers have today proved that Dilli door nahin hai (Delhi is not far away) by hoisting their flags on the Red Fort.”