: Friday, May 14, 2021, 11:10 PM IST 'Released Peanuts': TMC after 7.03 lakh West Bengal farmers get 1st installment of Rs 2,000 each under PM-KISAN (ANI Photo) Kolkata: A slugfest started between BJP and TMC after Prime Minister Narendra Modi transferred rupees two thousand to seven lakh farmers under PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in an open letter stated that soon after taking the oath as the Chief Minister of West Bengal on May 5, she had written a letter to the BJP-led Central government so that it releases all the subsidies for the farmers. âThe BJP government was supposed to release 18000 rupees to all the farmers. We will continue the fight till you all get the entire amount. In 2018, the TMC government started the Krishak Bandhu scheme that has become the model in the entire country,â read the open letter by Mamata Banerjee to the farmers.