BJP national president J.P. Nadda Saturday took a dig at Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for agreeing to implement PM Kisan Yojna only after realising that her party is fast losing ground among the farmers in the state.

Nadda, who launched the ‘Krishak Suraksha Abhiyan’ to woo farmers in the poll-bound state, said it is “too late” for the TMC government to agree to implement the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi.

He said the state government was compelled to go for the beneficiary scheme only after coming to know that “anger of the farmers over being deprived of the central schemes will wipe the TMC government in the state”.

“The Mamata Banerjee government agreed to implement the PM Kisan Samman Nidhi after such a long time as she has realised that the TMC is fast losing ground in Bengal,” Nadda said while launching the campaign.

“But, let me say it clearly that it is already too late for the TMC government,” he added.

The TMC government earlier this month softened its stand on implementing the PM Kisan scheme in the state, after more than a year of opposition to the programme.

Nadda asserted the farmers rally at Katwa proves that days of Mamata Banerjee government are numbered.

He said the BJP would provide justice to the farmers after it forms the next government in Bengal.

He arrived at the Jagdanandpur village in Purba Bardhaman district to launch his party's door-to-door rice collection programme aimed at wooing farmers, amid the ongoing protest in Delhi over the contentious agriculture laws.

His address at “Krishok Surokkha Gram Sabha” (farmers’ security meeting at village) in Jagadanandpur marks the beginning of 40,000 such meetings to be held by the BJP across West Bengal before the assembly elections.

There are 71.23 lakh farmers’ families in West Bengal, 96 per cent of them small and marginal.

The saffron party has launched an aggressive campaign in West Bengal in its bid to end the TMC’s 10-year-old reign in the state.