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Trinamool Congress: Trinamool Congress MPs alleged that due to vendetta, the Modi government is not paying the state’s dues of Rs 52,000 crore.
Trinamool Congress: Trinamool Congress MPs alleged that due to vendetta, the Modi government is not paying the state’s dues of Rs 52,000 crore. TMC MPs protested in the Parliament complex on Friday regarding the dues. Said that the entire state is being kept hungry to take political revenge from Mamata Banerjee. During the protest, the MPs raised slogans with placards in their hands and demanded that the pending amount be given to the state soon. Party leaders have claimed that the Center owes Rs 52,000 crore to the state. Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev said that the Modi government is continuously depriving West Bengal of help because they cannot win in Bengal. Today, 100 days job guarantee is a right given to the people by an Act of Parliament, but Rs 52,000 crore is still outstanding to the Government of India.
Center accused of not giving MNREGA money
He said that it is completely false for the Modi government to say that there is no action taken report or utilization certificate. Said that all the documents have been submitted. All the paperwork has been completed by the Bengal government, but they are refusing to release the MNREGA money. He said that this is illegal, it is inhuman, it is depriving Bengal and discriminating against Bengal. TMC MPs had also protested in the Parliament complex on this issue on Wednesday and Thursday. In a post on X on Friday, TMC said the Center owed around Rs 2 lakh crore. TMC alleged that Bengal has been held hostage by a regime that punishes states for refusing to bow to Delhi’s imperial arrogance. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA) wages were denied, housing scheme houses deprived, Jal Jeevan Mission funds strangled as Bengal refused to capitulate.
The fight will continue from the streets to the Parliament
It is a bitter truth that the Modi government is starving the entire state to take political revenge. This fight will now go from the streets of Bengal to the Parliament. We will not allow even a single rupee of Bengal’s legitimate dues to be looted, withheld or embezzled by the power-hungry Centre. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Rural Development Kamlesh Paswan had said that the release of funds to West Bengal under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MNREGA) was stopped from March 9, 2022, as the Centre’s instructions were not being consistently followed by the state. He claimed that the total pending liability related to West Bengal as of March 8, 2022 was Rs 4,50,000 crore. Out of the total amount of Rs 3082.52 crore, wages of Rs 1457.22 crore, material of Rs 1607.68 crore and Rs 17.62 crore are included under administrative head.
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