Chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that the hill has become her own home from today through marital relations. Mamata came to Kurseong yesterday to attend a wedding ceremony of one of her family members. Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee and other state government’s ministers came to attend the marriage ceremony.
“Today is a historic day for me. I am really happy today. We have made a blood relation with the hill, a relationship of the heart and a unity has developed between the hills and the plains.”
“The hill has become my own home now. Our family belongs to all others in the country and even in the world. We are one. We will work together in the hills and the plains and maintain unity. I have finally established it today,” chief minister Mamata Banerjee said. Wearing traditional attire of tea workers in Darjeeling, Miss Banerjee today plucked green tea leaves with the tea workers in Makaibari tea plantation and even sang a traditional song with them during plucking.
“Today I have learnt how to pluck tea leaves from them. I have written poems on tea and other subjects of each district in north Bengal,” Miss Banerjee said. She also asked the tea workers about the state government sponsored projects and whether they have got those schemes.
The chief minister, after interacting with the tea workers, told the media that she would provide land rights to them. “I will announce the state government’s plan in detail in an official meeting slated to be held in Kurseong tomorrow,” she said. The chief minister will attend her official programme from tomorrow in different parts of north Bengal and in Siliguri on 12 December.