<p>Kurseong, West Bengal: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday visited a tea estate in Darjeeling district, plucked leaves along with workers besides talking to them.</p><p>Wearing the tea pluckers’ apron, Banerjee also sang a few lines with the workers and shook a leg with them.</p><p>The chief minister is on a six-day visit to the northern districts of the state.</p><p>"Today, after wearing their clothes, I plucked tea leaves. I learned tea plucking from them. Now, I can go to any tea garden and pick tea leaves. This is my biggest lesson today. I remember I wrote a poem about them (tea leaves pluckers) long ago,” she later said.</p><p>The Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo has over 100 books to her credit and several of them are of poems.</p>.CM Mamata Banerjee to attend family wedding on tour to North Bengal.<p>"We have blood relations with the people of the Hills. The Hills became my own home," she added.</p><p>Banerjee also spoke to the tea garden workers and distributed winter garments to them.</p><p>During a trip to Darjeeling last year, Banerjee took to making momos at a roadside shop in Darjeeling besides serving ‘pani puris’ to the people of the Hills.</p><p>Later, Banerjee went to a community hall to bless her nephew Abhishek Bannerjee who tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend at a ceremony.</p>.<p>On Friday, the chief minister is scheduled to distribute land rights documents to people residing in the tea gardens here.</p><p>Granting land rights has been one of the key demands of the tea-growing areas of the state.</p><p>According to an official, more than 3 lakh workers reside in tea gardens in the northern part of the state.</p><p>Banerjee, who reached Kurseong on Wednesday, is scheduled to attend a series of state-organised public distribution programmes during her visit.</p>
<p>Kurseong, West Bengal: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday visited a tea estate in Darjeeling district, plucked leaves along with workers besides talking to them.</p><p>Wearing the tea pluckers’ apron, Banerjee also sang a few lines with the workers and shook a leg with them.</p><p>The chief minister is on a six-day visit to the northern districts of the state.</p><p>"Today, after wearing their clothes, I plucked tea leaves. I learned tea plucking from them. Now, I can go to any tea garden and pick tea leaves. This is my biggest lesson today. I remember I wrote a poem about them (tea leaves pluckers) long ago,” she later said.</p><p>The Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo has over 100 books to her credit and several of them are of poems.</p>.CM Mamata Banerjee to attend family wedding on tour to North Bengal.<p>"We have blood relations with the people of the Hills. The Hills became my own home," she added.</p><p>Banerjee also spoke to the tea garden workers and distributed winter garments to them.</p><p>During a trip to Darjeeling last year, Banerjee took to making momos at a roadside shop in Darjeeling besides serving ‘pani puris’ to the people of the Hills.</p><p>Later, Banerjee went to a community hall to bless her nephew Abhishek Bannerjee who tied the knot with his longtime girlfriend at a ceremony.</p>.<p>On Friday, the chief minister is scheduled to distribute land rights documents to people residing in the tea gardens here.</p><p>Granting land rights has been one of the key demands of the tea-growing areas of the state.</p><p>According to an official, more than 3 lakh workers reside in tea gardens in the northern part of the state.</p><p>Banerjee, who reached Kurseong on Wednesday, is scheduled to attend a series of state-organised public distribution programmes during her visit.</p>