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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Farmers’ unions call strike against Mamata govt by Rajib Chatterjee

Farmers’ unions call strike against Mamata govt by Rajib Chatterjee

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published Published on Jan 30, 2012   modified Modified on Jan 30, 2012

The peasants’ organisations of the four Left parties in West Bengal have called the Mamata Banerjee government “insensitive” to the plight of farmers and have decided to mobilise them to launch a campaign. The state government is already under fire from the farmers’ community for failing to procure paddy at the minimum support price (MSP) and provide jobs under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGS).

The CPM’s peasants’ wing, Paschimbanga Pradeshik Krishak Sabha, has engaged two organisations to find out the reasons that forced 28 farmers to commit suicide.

“The chief minister keeps saying that the farmers have committed suicide because of reasons not related to the distress sale of paddy and mounting debt. We will nail this lie with statistics. This is why we have engaged two organisations to make reports on the suicides by farmers,” Madan Ghosh, CPM state secretariat member and president of the Paschimbango Pradeshik Krishak Sabha, said on Sunday.

Addressing a press conference, he said the farmers would demonstrate in front of the block development officers (BDOs) and sub-divisional officers (SDOs) across the districts for 10 days starting from February 1, demanding procurement of paddy at the MSP.

Following a meeting on January 26, the peasants’ wings of the Left parties have called a strike in rural Bengal on February 28.

Incidentally, the Left trade unions have jointly called a general strike on the same day.

Ghosh said the farmers, who were clamouring for the sale of paddy at the MSP fixed by the state government, would express solidarity with the workers who had called the strike.

“Because of the faulty policy of the state and the Central governments, about 28 farmers have committed suicide in West Bengal,” Ghosh said, adding that the Left peasants’ organisations would welcome the farmers’ wing of the Congress, which had expressed concern over the suicides, if they gave a call for a joint movement.

“But no such proposal has come so far,” he said.

Ghosh also sent a strong rejoinder to the chief minister’s claim that over 350 farmers had committed suicide between 2008 and 2010 when the Left Front was in power.


The Indian Express, 30 January, 2012, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Farmers--unions-call-strike-against-Mamata-govt/905473/


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