Will frame policy to stop forcible 'bheri' takeover: CM in Basirhat
Times of India | 22 May 2024
KOLKATA/BASIRHAT: Bengal govt would frame a policy to prevent forcible takeover of fish farms or bheris, chief minister Mamata Banerjee said at her first election rally in Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency on Tuesday. Sandeshkhali is a part of this constituency.
"We are creating a policy that will prevent forcible takeover of a water body. Let the owner cultivate it.If not, let self-help groups manage it. But the names must be recorded with govt. They also need to pay a fee to govt. This will maintain their rights over the water body," she said in her address at Merudandi helipad ground near Taki, around 40km from Sandeshkhali.
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The CM asked residents of Basirhat and Sandeshkhali to approach her if they had any grievances. "If you are angry with someone, you have the right to speak up. Send a letter to my house. It may take a day or two but I will look into it. If it is urgent, I will prioritise it. I can't do everything, but in 99.9% of cases, I do as much as I can," she said and added that once Haji Nurul (TMC's Basirhat candidate) won, she would first visit Sandeshkhali.
Sandeshkhali women exposed BJP plan: CM
In her first poll rally in Basirhat on Tuesday, CM Mamata Banerjee said none would be spared if any woman was harmed in Bengal. "If any incident does occur, we take immediate action. Whether it is Ram, Rahim, Kesto or Bistu, we don't differentiate and none is spared. Women and dalits are oppressed in UP but this does not happen here," she said.
Accusing BJP of ruining the dignity of women in Sandeshkhali, the CM said, "I am deeply hurt and saddened by the disrespect shown towards my mothers and sisters by BJP. If these incidents (videos in which women claimed they were coerced to file rape complaints) hadn't come to light, no one would have known about BJP's conspiracy. BJP had hatched the plan but the women of Sandeshkhali nullified it and exposed it."
Banerjee said BJP's plan A was the Sandeskhali conspiracy and plan B was to engineer a communal riot. "Plan A has been negated by the mothers and sisters of Sandeshkhali but Plan B is still in effect. But we will not let riots happen here." she said.
She said before elections BJP paid Rs 2,000-5,000 to some people to plot conspiracies and added that "BJP spends crores to conspire but doesn't pay for 100 days of work".