The BJP on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for peddling lies against the Narendra Modi Government and hijacking all its projects to let them pass as her own schemes.
Showing how the Bengal Government had hijacked most of the central projects and implemented them in its own name BJP national president JP Nadda quoting a popular saying and remarked: “A thief may change his profession but will never stop fiddling … similarly here in Bengal to earn false credit this Government has changed names of Prime Minister Awaas Yojana to Bangla Awaas Yojana … Prime Minister Garib Kalyan Yojana has become Khadya Saathi, Swacchha Bharat has become Nirmal Bangla and so on … so it is the duty of BJP workers to go tell people truth of how she (Chief Minister) is claiming false credit.” Hitting Banerjee back for alleging how Centre had withheld payment of wages under National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme Nadda said “no fund is transacted without proper accounting … for past three years State Government has not accounted for the previous funds paid under NREGA scheme and now they are blaming Centre … should central government to start misappropriating funds raised from people’s taxes by paying them without asking for proper accounting.”
Hours before, the Chief Minister told a large audience at Hanshimara in North Bengal how Centre had withheld NREGA funds for past several months making it impossible for her to pay the poor people for 100 days’ work. “Before elections they promise you skies and after elections they refuse to keep their promises … as in case of Ujala scheme … today they have stopped giving gas supplies to people … they are not giving NREGA funds for past several months and they have even stopped providing free wheat to poor whereas they have effected an all-round rise in prices of essential items,” Banerjee
said. She had on Tuesday attacked the Centre for running a counterfeit government by flooding country with fake currency notes. In a no-hold-barred attack Nadda who was addressing a meeting of party men in Kolkata said that like former Bihar Chief Minister Laloo Yadav who was taking rounds of law courts one day Chief Minister of Bengal too would have to go to courts.“It is just a matter of 30 years … then the people would not even imagine that a powerful person like Laloo ji will have to make rounds of law courts which he has been doing now … just wait and see how 20 years from now both Pisi (aunt --- read Mamata Banerjee) and Bhaipo (nephew --- read Abhishek Banerjee) will have to make rounds of courts for their actions,” Nadda said.
Saying that in the past one decade the Chief Minister had turned Bengal into a crime capital Nadda said that Bengal was the 4th highest in attempted murder cases adding how in 2019 alone the state reported 1069 cases of rape.
Apparently referring to the Chief Minister he said “when the rakshak (protector) becomes bhakshak (destroyer) nothing remains … when the
Chief Minister calls rape incidents as choto ghatna (small incident) then law and order is bound to deteriorate.”
Saying how the regional parties which once determined the fate of the central governments had transformed into dynastic outfits Nadda said “From Samajwadi Party —which is Akhilesh Yadav’s party — to RJD — which is Laloo and Tejaswi’s party — to DMK — which Stalin’s party — to TMC — which is Pisi and Bhaipo’s party, all have become dynastic outfits and will obliterate in course of time.”.”