Left Front chairman Biman Bose today said said the threat of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to tea garden owners to operate properly or else their property would be taken over by the government would not work unless the West Bengal government step in to control the situation.
"Taking over tea gardens won't work. The state government should itself step in to control the situation in the tea gardens where several labourers have died in the last few days," Bose told reporters.
It is the responsibility of the state government. We will also ask the Left trade unions to go to the spot and take stock of the situation," Bose said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today warned that the state government would take over tea gardens if their owners failed to operate them properly.
"Those who are running the tea gardens properly, we will help them. But those tea garden owners, who are closing their tea gardens all on a sudden and without even giving back the provident fund money to the employees, are not doing the right thing," the chief minister said at a programme in north Bengal.
She said that the state government would take over the closed tea garden in that eventuality and give it to someone else through management system, Banerjee said.
