A month after convoy attack, J P Nadda launches 'Ek Mutthi Chawal' campaign in Bengal
Kolkata, Jan 09: Almost a month after his convoy came under attack, BJP president J P Nadda was back in West Bengal Saturday, keeping with his outfit's schedule for him in the poll-bound state.
He is set to launch his party's day-long door-to-door rice collection programme aimed at meeting farmers amid the protest in Delhi over contentious agriculture laws.
The 'Ek Mutthi Chawal' (a fistful of rice) programme aims to blunt the opposition's "anti-farmer" allegation against his party. Under this, he would collect rice from farmers' homes and brief them about the benefits of three new farm laws, against which thousands from Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and other states have been protesting for more than a month now in and around Delhi.
Also, BJP workers will go to farmers' homes in 48,000 villages in the state and collect rice and tell them about the new agricultural laws as part of the campaign later on.
Nadda will spend most of the day with farmers of Jagdanandpur village during his day-long trip to the state. The BJP chief will hold a roadshow from Burdwan Clock Tower to Lord Curzon Gate in Burdwan and address a press conference too.
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With
Banerjee,
also
the
head
of
the
Trinamool
Congress,
backing
the
farmers
who
are
protesting
against
the
three
agri
laws,
the
BJP
has
gone
all
out
to
convince
farmers
about
the
"benefits"
of
these
Acts
and
asserted
that
a
large
number
of
them
support
them.
On
December
10,
Nadda's
vehicle
came
under
attack
during
his
journey
to
Diamond
Harbour
from
Kolkata.
Keeping
that
incident
in
view,
elaborate
security
arrangements
have
been
put
in
place
across
the
district
this
time.