Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Monday slammed the Mamata Banerjee-led state authorities for saying a two-day sit-in towards the Centre`s “discrimination” in direction of the state in allocating social welfare funds.
Addressing a press convention, the BJP chief mentioned, “TMC is not a political party but a `private limited company`. He claimed that elections before Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power were held on three grounds – `Dynasticism, ethnicity, appeasement – which has been rooted out except for two states, West Bengal and Telangana.”
Adhikari alleged that the state authorities has already taken 1000’s of crores of rupees beneath the centrally sponsored MGNREGA scheme.
“Around 3.60 crore MGNREGA job card holders were registered when the scheme was launched in the state. When the Centre announced linking of the job cards with Aadhaar, the Bengal government deleted around 1 crore job card data. The state government has taken a significant amount of money on behalf of those 1 crore job cards in the last 10 years that were found to be fake. “It is an enormous rip-off”.
Earlier, Chief Minister Banerjee introduced a two-day sit-in demonstration on March 29 and 30 over the `Centre`s discrimination towards the state` in allocating social welfare funds.
The protest shall be performed in entrance of the BR Ambedkar statue in Kolkata.
