CM's rare tweet in Hindi looks back at Singur triumph

KOLKATA: It has been two years since the Supreme Court made a landmark judgment on the return of acquired land in Singur in Bengal, that gained momentum and reached its logical culmination under Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee.

Tweets in Hindi, dedicating her anti-land acquisition movement victory as a "victory of the farmers of India", showed her passion and dedication for the same.

According to sources, Banerjee is also keen to organise a national farmers' rally where she would address the farmers, raise the issues of farmer distress under the Modi government and highlight the schemes she has implemented in Bengal for them.

Hailed as the champion of the farmers' cause, she is the only politician who had spoken about the adverse effects of demonetisation on farmers within half-an-hour of the announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

From implementing loan waiver schemes to criticising farmer suicides, the Chief Minister has been extremely vocal about landless labourers and their plight throughout the country.

Time and again, she has taken up measures to provide relief to the farmers, introduced schemes for them to be covered under Kisan credit cards and directed average loans to be given to credit card holders, starting from Rs 2 lakh.

"On August 31, 2016, the SC, in a historic judgment declared that the land acquisition made by the erstwhile Left government in Singur was illegal. On the second anniversary of the historic judgment, (I extend) my best wishes to all the farmers of the country. We are always committed to their struggle and cause," she tweeted on Friday.

Sources added that Banerjee is likely to address a mass meeting with "Hindi-speaking people" at Netaji Indoor Stadium on September 7.