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Abhishek Banerjee announced that the party will embark on a campaign to collect signatures. West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress has announced an ambitious new campaign to put the BJP-led government at the center of unpaid funds. "A million letters from the people of Bengal will be sent to the prime minister demanding our share of the funds. I will take all these letters to the central government in Delhi. Then we will see if the Center can stop us from coming in with letters from millions of Bengals." , Trinamool National Secretary General and Diamond Harbor Party MP announced at a town hall meeting in Alipurduar, West Bengal on Saturday. Mr. Banerjee announced that the party will embark on a campaign to collect signatures and send letters to the Prime Minister and Minister for Rural Development requesting the release of funds owed to Bengal under the MGNREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act). of Mahatma Gandhi) that guarantees 100 days of rural employment. These letters will be collected by the leaders at the Trinamool Congress posts and taken to Delhi with the recipients who have not been paid. Abhishek Banerjee made the announcement during a rally in Alipurduar, an area where the BJP performed well in West Bengal in the 2019 Lok Sabha election and 2021 election.
Recently, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also participated in a two-day Dharna in Calcutta on outstanding dues in Bengal. The BJP alleges that the funds are withheld because Trinamool is mired in corruption and has been unable to provide expense accounts, resulting in the funds being withheld. “Last week they watched as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sat in a dharna on Red Road in Kolkata to protest against the late payment by the BJP execution center for the 100-day work programme. The BJP retains the right of the people and the money due to them. Banerjee said, pointing to the BJP.
"From the Bengali New Year, Poila Boisakh, we will undertake this agitation at every post. For a month we will collect signatures and after a month, with 50,000 people and a million letters, we will go to Delhi, I am announcing Let's see if they can stop us, we will send a million letters to the PMO and the office of the Minister of Rural Development. Let them ignore it. If they have the guts, let them not notice," he said, describing the plan for the riots.
The BJP called Trinamool's allegations misleading and false. BJP MP and BJP State Chairman Sukanta Majumdar said: "The Union government has given more money to West Bengal compared to the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government. In some cases it is a multiplication of five and in other cases it is a multiplication by 10. The Trinamool claiming that the Narendra Modi government is depriving the state of West Bengal is a totally false and incorrect statement.
Abhishek Banerjee recently led a delegation of Trinamool MPs to meet the union's rural development minister, but the delegation was unable to meet the minister. "Three days ago, with 25 MPs, I went to Delhi and tried to meet the Union Rural Development Minister, Giriraj Singh. However, he did not give us an appointment, even though he was in Delhi. It was because Giriraj Singh did not did". have the courage to meet us. The Union Minister did not get an answer to our questions and therefore avoided meeting us," said Mr. Banerjee, "Bengal is the only state whose funds have been withheld by the center. Because ? This is because the BJP lost the 2021 assembly election,” he added.
