Assam Congress extends support to Farmers' Bandh on Dec 8, workers to join protests

DISPUR: The Assam State Unit of the Indian National Congress has sounded a clarion call to all its mandals to support the farmers' "bandh" that has been called on December 8 as a mark of resentment against the Centre's new Farm Laws. The Assam Congress has asked all its workers to express solidarity with the agitators, who have stayed put on Delhi borders for 10 days.

The Assam Pradesh Congress Committee today released a statement clarifying that it shall indeed be supporting the "bandh" called by the farmers who are demanding the repealing of the "anti-farmer legislations."

Extending moral support to the agitating farmers, the Assam Congress has also informed that the party's workers from each Congress Mandal Committee shall be joining the farmers in the fields of the state to register their protest.

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Ripun Bora, the APCC President, requested all the chapters of the Congress across the State to observe the "democratic and non-violent protest in a befitting manner."

Farmers' leaders have said that they will carry on with the 'Bharat Bandh' (nationwide strike) on 8 December to mount pressure on the Central Government.

The representatives of thousands of protesting farmers, who are sitting on various borders of Delhi since 26 November, have said their call for a 'Bharat Bandh' would be observed with full force.

The ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal has decided to extend its "moral support" to the 8 December nationwide strike and would stage sit-ins in various areas for three days.

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