Image Source : PTI/FILE Mamata Banerjee hints at implementing PM-Kisan scheme in West Bengal
Continuing her tirade in opposition to the Centre over the brand new farm legal guidelines, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday stated preparations would quickly be made to convene an meeting session to move a decision in opposition to the contentious Acts.
With meeting polls knocking on the door, Banerjee additionally hinted that she was able to implement the PM-Kisan scheme in Bengal, if the farmers benefitted out of it and stated she had requested the Centre to share particulars of all those that have registered themselves on the Union authorities’s portal for the programme. Banerjee, nonetheless, asserted that stated she would by no means permit the implementation of the three farm legal guidelines, which have sparked protests throughout the nation.
“We are against those farm laws. We would soon convene an assembly session for a day or two and pass a resolution against the anti-farmer laws,” Banerjee stated.
Bengal, if it passes the decision, would change into the sixth state within the nation to take action, after Kerala, Delhi, Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.
The CM’s remarks got here on a day when the seventh spherical of talks between protesting unions and three central ministers ended inconclusively, as farmer teams caught to their demand for repeal of the three farm legal guidelines, whereas the federal government listed out numerous advantages of the brand new Acts for the expansion of the nation’s agriculture sector.
“I support the farmers and want the withdrawal of these three laws for the sake of the country,” she stated, slamming the Centre for not revoking the Acts.
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Thousands of farmers, primarily from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, are protesting at Delhi borders for over a month in opposition to the three legal guidelines. They have stayed put regardless of heavy rain and waterlogging at protest websites over the past couple of days, apart from extreme chilly climate situations prevailing in and across the nationwide capital.
Accusing the Centre of “pursuing politics” over the problem of implementation of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi in Bengal, Banerjee stated she would not let the farmers endure.
“I had repeatedly asked the Centre to transfer funds allotted under the PM-Kisan scheme to the state government. That was never done. They (central government officials) claimed that around 21.7 lakh farmers from Bengal had registered themselves on a portal to get the benefits of the scheme. They (Centre) have sought verification of this data. I understood that the Centre was trying to politicise the matter. We also realised that farmers should not suffer because of this… I have asked the Centre to pass on the data so that we can start the verification process,” she stated.
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Under the PM-Kisan scheme, an earnings help of Rs 6,000 per yr in three equal installments is supplied to small and marginal farmer households.
The chief minister additional added that she desires that farmers get all doable assist, along with the help being doled out by her authorities.
“I want the farmers to get all benefits. We do have our schemes, but if they get extra benefits… let them avail it. I don’t have any problem if they get the benefits. However, if the Centre doesn’t trust us with the verification process, then it is up to them,” she added.
Banerjee had up to now opposed the implementation of central schemes, saying that her authorities would permit PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi and Ayushman Bharat programmes within the state, provided that funds to the beneficiaries are routed via the state authorities.
BJP nationwide common secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya welcomed the choice of Banerjee to permit farmers to avail PM Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme. “It is good that the state government has decided to allow it. This will benefit lakhs of farmers of Bengal. And the farmers would realize the kind of politics the TMC was pursuing by depriving them of its benefits,” he stated.
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