Hours after Trinamool Congress chief Abhishek Banerjee claimed the Centre gave no cash to West Bengal within the final three years, BJP’s Saumitra Khan hit again on the TMC MP, saying his authorities within the state renamed all central schemes. He stated the Centre allotted Rs 13,000 crores to Bengal for a rail venture however the TMC authorities was unable to allot land for it. “The most important dacoit speaks the thieves’ language. He’s a dacoit, so whose language will he communicate? They rename the Central Authorities’s schemes…They do not even give an account for Central funds,” Khan, BJP MP from Bishnupur, stated whereas chatting with information company ANI.
BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari additionally shared knowledge, countering Abhishek Banerjee’s claims on the finances allocation to Bengal. He shared the allocation determine for this 12 months for West Bengal via Indian Railways. “The Annual Common Funds Outlay for the 2024-25 fiscal 12 months is 13,941 Cr which is three-fold greater than the UPA regime – 4,380 Cr. That is over and above the continuing initiatives estimated on the worth of Rs 60,168 Cr,” he stated.
Adhikari, Chief of the Opposition in Bengal, stated this was only one Ministry, “the State of West Bengal could be benefiting from all of the Ministries and Centrally Sponsored Schemes & Tasks.”
Earlier within the day, throughout a dialogue on the finances in Lok Sabha, Banjere stated the Modi authorities had “disadvantaged” West Bengal and different components of the nation of varied advantages, together with MNERGA and housing scheme. “Since you will have failed the defeat us politically in West Bengal, you at the moment are conspiring towards the folks of the state,” he alleged.
The Diamond Harbour MP additionally challenged the Centre to deliver out a white paper on fund allocation to Bengal. “When and the way a lot did they (BJP) give cash to Bengal for 100 days work and housing scheme? If they’re able to show even for 10 paise, I’ll stop politics. I’ve stated 1000’s of instances that they need to deliver a white paper and say whether or not they have given even 10 paise to Bengal in these three monetary years 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24,” he stated whereas chatting with ANI.
Responding to this, Union MoS and BJP MP Sukanta Majumdar stated the Centre was prepared to supply knowledge to Abhishek Banerjee. “Each time he needs, we’re prepared to supply the information. Abhishek Banerjee is behaving in such a manner that he’s the ruler of this nation. This sort of conceitedness shouldn’t be accepted in a democracy. Folks know that at any time when the Central Authorities offered cash to West Bengal, the cash was misused by the TMC Authorities. TMC Authorities itself has accepted that some ‘chori’ has occurred.”
Throughout his deal with, Abhishek Banerjee claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was main a “creaky, shaky and weak” coalition authorities that taken care of the pursuits of solely two states within the finances. He stated the finances introduced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman was aimed toward “appeasing and compensating” coalition companions of the ruling NDA.
