The CPM and the Congress jointly took out a motorcycle rally that covered 105km and nine gram panchayats of Bolpur-Sriniketan to campaign for the farmers’ movement on Delhi borders to demand a repeal of the farm laws.

The rally was taken out a day after the Congress high command formed a four-member committee headed by its state president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for talks with the Left Front to share seats and chalk out joint political programmes for Bengal polls.

Around 150 motorbikes went around the villages and campaigned against the BJP’s alleged anti-farmer policies.

“The areas we covered are rural pockets as we wanted to reach out to the farmers on the issue of farm laws,” said CPM state committee member Gautam Ghosh.

President of the Bolpur unit of the Congress, Tapan Saha, said: “We kicked off the campaign to inform people about our poll alliance too.”