Trinamool not to accept Centre's land policy, to hold protest

The Trinamool Congress today said it would not accept the Centre's land policy and would 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," TMC secretary-general and state education minister Partha Chatterjee told a press conference here, referring to amendments in the Land Acquisition Act that were brought through an ordinance by the Modi government recently.
"We will organise protest meetings on 7, 8, 14, 15 February between 3-4 PM without causing inconvenience to the public", Chatterjee said.

"We urge everyone who is against communal politics to join our protest-meetings, he 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.
"BJP could not get Bills passed in Parliament. They (NDA government) are imposing anti-people Ordinances now on the nation," Chatterjee, a senior TMC leader, said.
"The BJP government at the Centre has kept both Houses of Parliament in the dark and issued a number of ordinances which are anti-people and anti-nation. They are selling the country," he said.

Chatterjee also said the TMC would not let BJP play divisive politics in West Bengal and stop the saffron party and its other organisations from conducting "forced conversion".