TMC not to accept Centre’s land policy, will protest

The Trinamool Congress has refused to accept Centre's land policy and is set to launch a statewide protest.

The Trinamool Congress on Monday said it will not accept the Centre’s land policy and launch a statewide protest from February 7 against the promulgation of several “anti-people” ordinances and the “politics of hate and divisiveness practised by the BJP”.

“We will not accept the Centre’s land policy,” Trinamool secretary-general and state Education Minister Partha Chatterjee told mediapersons here while referring to amendments in the Land Acquisition Act brought through an Ordinance by the Modi government recently.

“We will organise protest meetings on February 7, 8, 14, 15 between 3 and 4 pm without causing inconvenience to the public. We urge everyone, who is against communal politics, to join our protest,” Chatterjee said.

“People of Bengal will reject the politics of hate and divisiveness practised by the BJP. We will protest in every block. We ask everyone to unite against the BJP’s undemocratic tactics. They have issued Ordinance in every important sector,” Chatterjee said.

“The BJP could not get Bills passed in the Parliament. They (NDA government) are imposing anti-people Ordinances now on the nation… The BJP government has kept both Houses of the Parliament in the dark and issued a number of ordinances. They are selling the country,” he added.

Chatterjee further said that Trinamool will not let BJP play divisive politics in West Bengal and stop the saffron party and its other organisations from conducting “forced conversions”.

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