Summary:
In Bengal, farmers' income has more than tripled in six years, from Rs 91,000 in 2011 to Rs 2.9 lakh last year. The number of farmer suicides in the BJP-ruled Maharashtra was 635 in the first quarter of 2017; the figure for Bengal was zero," it added. The signages that Modi saw were there all over Bengal as part of the preparations for the July 21 Shahid Divas programme, a statement issued by Trinamool secretary-general Partha Chatterjee and MP Derek O'Brien said. "May we now ask how he plans to double farmers' income? Jagai unnayan ar Madhai unnayan hochchhe (The development in the state is for a chosen few)," the PM said, taking a dig at Trina-mool for lining up his route with massive Mamata Banerjee cutouts.The CM herself did not join issue but her party issued a point-by-point rebuttal..