The Trinamool Congress continued to attack the BJP-led Centre for perpetrating an oppressive rule and dishing out false hopes to the nation.
Accusing Central Government of setting central agencies after the opposition parties that dared to raise their voices against the saffron Government TMC MP and party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday said “they are sending CBI or ED at our doors because we dare to challenge them … because we have not sold ourbackbone … because we have not bowed before them." Banerjee is the nephew of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Questioning why CBI is used on ‘false’ pretext he said, “if they can arrest our senior leader Madan Mitra and put him behind bar for two years just because he attended the meeting of Sudip to Sen (Sharadachit fund kingpin) why don’t they put Prime Minister Narendra Modi tojail because Nirav Modi was also seen with him in a picture … this Nirav Modi has looted the country of Rs 20,000 crore.”
And when Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was protesting against the arbitrary ways of the Centre “they are stopping our funds in NREGA and other schemes so that we are not able to pay the poor workers.”
Attacking Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar for making an issue out of Banerjee’s adverse remarks against “a small percentage of the judiciary” who he said were acting at the behest of the powers that be in Delhi, the TMC leader said “I had not spoken against the Governor but still he took it upon him ... this means that my remark had found its target.”
The Governor on Monday directed the State Chief Secretary and Kolkata Police Commissioner to take “appropriate action” against Banerjee for making allegedly contemptuous remarks against the judiciary which had recently ordered CBI investigations in a number of cases involving the TMC leaders including the TMC general secretary and a few senior ministers.
Raising the credibility of the “so-called PM Cares Fund,” Bengal Minister Dr Shashi Panja said that the “Prime Minister is talking about PM Cares but there is no information on how this money is being spent … no audit of this Fund is conducted despite the fact that government officers are involved in this … why don’t they declare PM Cares as a government project” that should be enforceable by
law.
Targeting the BJP Government for coming to power by peddling false dreams and ruining the Indian economy after coming to power Bengal Finance Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said how “in the past eight years the Narendra Modi Government has effected 307 percent increasein cess on fuel … the price of cooking gas has breached Rs 1,000 mark and more than 2 crore women have lost jobs in India and investors are avoiding this country and fleeing India in hordes..”