West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee began her political profession with Congress (I) throughout the early Seventies. Ending the uninterrupted 34-year rule of the Left in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee made historical past when she was sworn in as the primary girl Chief Minister of the state. Her political journey has, nevertheless, not been simple. Instead, it has been plagued with myriad lies.
With all eyes set on the high-octane 2021 West Bengal Assembly Elections, fashionable Twitter person @BefittingFacts revisited the highest 25 lies that the West Bengal CM has peddled in her lengthy political profession.
In this text, we elaborate on the 25 lies listed within the video and delve into their particulars.
1. The bogus PhD diploma from a University that by no means existed
Until 1991 Mamata Banerjee claimed to have obtained a PhD diploma from “East Georgia University” within the United States. It was later discovered that no such college existed and she or he stopped mentioning this diploma subsequently.
According to stories, within the run-up to the 1984 elections, as per the video, Mamata Banerjee prefixed her identify with ‘Dr’, claiming that she had accomplished her doctorate. Reportedly, the partitions of Jadavpur, from the place Banerjee contested the seat, have been painted with “Dr Mamata Banerjee”. After it got here to mild that the University from which Banerjee had putatively accomplished her PhD didn’t exist, she stopped prefixing her identify with the ‘Dr’ title.
In 1985, the then Congress MP from Jadavpur Mamata Banerjee stood uncovered when the United States Educational Foundation in India proclaimed that there didn’t exist an establishment named ‘The University of East Georgia’ from the place she had claimed to have allegedly accomplished her doctorate.
2. Mamata Banerjee’s ‘coup’ cost on the Indian Army
In 2016, Mamata Banerjee accused the Indian military of staging a ‘coup’ in her state. That yr, when the Army was doing a coaching train throughout the state, the Mamata Banerjee authorities created a furore.
Mamata Banerjee claimed the Army troopers being current on the toll plazas within the state was suspicious. She additional claimed that the Army was finishing up ‘political vendetta’ and that the Army had despatched its officers to her state with out her permission.
The matter was blown to such proportions that it even created a ruckus within the parliament. Mamata Banerjee remained on the state secretariat in a single day in protest.
Finally, the then Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar clarified that the presence of the Army cadre on the toll plazas was part of a routine ‘impressment exercise’ carried out nearly yearly. The Army launched a letter written to the WB CM informing her about the identical. It was uncovered how the Army had despatched 4 paperwork to the WB Govt which the latter returned, duly signed and stamped, acknowledging the routine train.
Mamata and her social gathering leaders had created a furore over an everyday Army train that was being carried out after due approval from the WB authorities
The Kolkata police had additionally written to the Army asking them to not conduct the train, which, certainly backed the Army’s declare that the Mamata Banerjee authorities was knowledgeable in regards to the joint train.
The article revealed by India Today on December 2, 2016
3. MEA dismissed Mamata Banerjee’s claims over her Chicago journey
Taking a potshot on the Modi authorities, the TMC supremo had in 2018 alleged that the central authorities threatened the Ramakrishna Mission, forcing it to cancel her journey to Chicago to have fun the a hundred and twenty fifth anniversary of Swami Vivekanandas historic speech there.
Her personal workplace had, nevertheless, uncovered her lie after it knowledgeable that Ramakrishna Mission itself had cancelled this system because of the sudden loss of life of a monk of the Ramakrishna Mission, Belur math.
The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) had additionally dismissed stories that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was denied permission to go to Chicago to attend the World Hindu convention. MEA Spokesperson, Raveesh Kumar confirmed that the federal government had not, the truth is, obtained any request for clearance for her go to.
4. 2014 Burdawan bomb blast staged by BJP authorities, claimed Mamata Banerjee
On 2nd October 2014, a robust bomb unintentionally went off on the primary ground of a rented home in Khagragarh locality of Burdwan, West Bengal. Incidentally, that constructing additionally housed a TMC workplace on its floor ground. Two terrorists, who have been making the bomb succumbed to the accidents. While the case was initially probed by West Bengal police, the identical was later taken over by NIA on tenth October 2014.
Then, the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched a frontal assault on the Narendra Modi authorities, accusing it of stage-managing the October 2 Burdwan blast with the target of triggering riots within the state.
Soon after the blast, Mamata Banerjee had blamed the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), the overseas intelligence company of India, for being behind the blast. She had alleged that the 2 terrorists have been ‘let in’ by the Modi authorities which had simply come to energy few months again and ‘found them a house’ and ‘allowed them to make explosives’. She had alleged that the Central authorities had finished so to start out a riot throughout the Pujo.
Mamata Banerjee was proved incorrect when NIA revealed that Bangladesh-based terror teams, Al-Jihad and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) have been behind the 2014 Burdawan blast and sentenced JMB chief Kausar to 29 years in jail.
5. Park Street gang rape case
An Anglo-Indian girl named Suzette Jordan was raped in a transferring automobile by 5 males on February 6, 2012, when she was returning house from Park Street in Kolkata.
Soon after the information surfaced, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee had absolved the accused of all prices. She had dubbed the incident as ‘shajano ghotona‘ (concocted incident) that was allegedly ‘designed to malign the government.’
While talking to a information channel, TMC MP Kakoli Ghose Dhastidar had solid aspersions on the character of the sufferer calling her a ‘sex worker’. She had additionally dominated out the rape angle.
Later, after public outrage, Mamata Banerjee was seen taking a U-turn. She transferred Kolkata’s joint commissioner of police (Crime) Ms Damayanti Sen, who had cracked the notorious Park Street gang rape case inside 4 days of the accused being arrested.
Moreover, she ousted Sarbani Roy from the publish of public prosecutor within the Park Street gang rape case after accusing her of going past her jurisdiction and performing with out consulting the federal government.
6. Mamata’s lie over Anna Hazare’s no-show at rally
In a bid to boost her nationwide significance, WB CM Mamata Banerjee had organised a joint rally with social activist Anna Hazare on the Ramlila Grounds within the National Capital in 2014. The CM was, nevertheless, left red-faced after Anna Hazare determined to skip the rally citing ill-health. However, the actual fact was that Hazare had backed out for the reason that supposed joint rally was sparsely attended.
To save, herself from the embarrassment, Mamata lied that the rally was really organised on the insistence of the anti-corruption crusader. “It was not our rally. It was organised at the insistence of Annaji. It was not a Trinamool Congress rally,” the West Bengal Chief Minister instructed a information channel.
Responding to Mamata Banerjee, Hazare then cleared that he had skipped the ‘joint’ rally right here with the Trinamool Congress chief as a result of even 4000 individuals had not come to attend it and he had been misled.
The fact was additional revealed when the Delhi Municipal company receipt surfaced. It confirmed that the Ramlila Ground was really booked by Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress social gathering.
The MCD receipt
7. Vidyasagar statue row
In 2019, a political ball-game kickstarted after information began pouring in that standing of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar at Vidyasagar College in North Kolkata was vandalized by miscreants. Both, TMC and BJP started blaming one another for the incident.
The fact was that within the clashes which ensued following an assault on BJP President Amit Shah’s rally in Kolkata, a statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was vandalized by miscreants in Vidyasagar College in Kolkata.
After the incident, Mamata Banerjee started accusing the BJP of inflicting violence though it was evidently began by the Trinamool. Mamata Banerjee had then offered a sure particular person along with his hand wrapped up in bandages in entrance of the press. She claimed that the BJP karyakarta’s injured Tirtha Pratim Saha, a pupil chief of the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad.
Much to the embarrassment of Mamata Banerjee, Tirtha Pratim Saha, himself admitted that he was really injured a couple of days in the past. It was quickly confirmed that Mamata Banerjee had created a faux sufferer to hawk the premeditated regional chauvinism narrative to counter BJP’s rise within the state.
8. ‘Never captured CPI-M offices’: Mamata Banerjee
Though through the years, the TMC supremo has loved the overwhelming assist of her voters within the state, the concern to lose to the formidable reputation of BJP has most likely compelled her to resort to limitless lies and deceit. When the West Bengal CM was in her eighth yr of energy within the state she claimed that in these years, her social gathering has not even captured a single social gathering workplace belonging to CPI-M.
This was a blatant lie. Until 2011, there have been many social gathering workplaces which belonged to the CPI(M). However, after the lack of the Left Front to the Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool Congress, these have been taken over by the TMC and its twin flowers have been painted on their partitions.
Report revealed by Business Standard in 2019
After the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, when BJP made profitable inroads within the state, CPI-M recaptured 150 of its workplaces in West Bengal which, it alleged, had been taken over forcibly by the ruling Trinamool Congress after the Left was ousted from energy within the state in 2011.
Party workplaces in Bankura, Purulia, Coochbihar, Bardhaman, Hoogly, North 24 Parganas and Howrah amongst others weren’t solely retaken by the CPI(M) cadres, however the social gathering image was additionally painted on them and social gathering flags have been seen flying atop the buildings.
9. Mamata Banerjee’s MGNREGA lie
In 2013, two years into workplace, Mamata Banerjee made huge claims of improvement, particularly about offering 100 days of labor to unemployed adults below the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). Her authorities claimed that the state topped the chart in 2012-13 with the implementation of initiatives value Rs 4475.80 crore, which is the very best within the nation and generated employment for 57.76 lakh households.
TMC authorities’s advert in an area newspaper made tall claims of topping the event scale.
TMC’s advert about MNREGA
This additionally turned out to be nothing however a deception. The nationwide statistics then urged that West Bengal ranked twenty fourth on the checklist. The then Union Minister of State for Urban Development Deepa Dasmunsi had stated in an announcement: “The state has ranked 24th on the list, whereas the (Trinamool) government very boastfully claimed otherwise. It easily nailed the lie of the state administration as they are misleading people with wrong information ahead of the panchayat elections”.
The nationwide statistics additionally urged that West Bengal dipped to the thirty fifth place within the checklist within the yr 2019.
So, opposite to the lie peddled by Mamata Banerjee about topping the MGNREGA chart, there was an unprecedented progress of unemployment below the TMC rule. Between October 2016 to 2020, unemployment in West Bengal has grown by an astounding 217 per cent.
West Bengal additionally at all times has the very best share of delayed MGNREGA funds and it’s tormented by TMC’s cut-money throughout the state, the place staff are pressured to pay hefty sums to avail work below the scheme.
10. Mamata Banerjee lies about hunger deaths in Bengal
In 2018, stories of deaths of seven Sabar group members in Lalgarh in West Bengal’s Jhargram district, allegedly as a consequence of shortage of meals, had drawn sharp criticism for the Mamata authorities.
To save her personal pores and skin, Mamata refuted these stories saying that nobody died as a consequence of hunger. The deaths have been both as a consequence of “age-related ailments” or “excessive liquor consumption”, stated the West Bengal CM.
“The reports that people from Sabar community have died due to starvation were absolutely false and fabricated. No one has died in Bengal due to starvation,” she stated within the state Assembly.
“People have died in Jungle Mahal due to excessive consumption of liquor or age-related ailments. While two people have died of illness and old age, others have died due to liver problems caused by excessive consumption of liquor,” she added.
However, a survey carried out then had busted the TMC supremo’s claims. The report urged that there was certainly a “food scarcity in varying degrees” in about 31% of tribal households within the state of West Bengal, which implies nearly one-third of the tribal inhabitants within the state are malnourished and starved.
The report added that amongst the surveyed tribal households within the yr, out of the 52 deaths, shockingly, 48 individuals died a untimely loss of life whereas solely 4 died as a consequence of outdated age.
11. The overused faux information about Narendra Modi promising to ship Rs 15 lakhs within the financial institution accounts of each citizen
Like each different opposition social gathering, Mamata Banerjee has again and again attacked the BJP authorities by falsely claiming that the Central Govt promised to ship Rs. 15 lakhs within the financial institution accounts of each citizen. In truth, in January 2020, to wriggle out of her predicaments amid the Coronavirus disaster, she attacked the central authorities by as soon as once more raking up the identical overused and fatigued faux information.
During her rant, Mamata Banerjee reiterated how that Narendra Modi promised to ship Rs 15 lakhs within the financial institution accounts of each citizen. She went a step forward and claimed that the central authorities itself had introduced that the stated quantity can be delivered within the again account of each citizen.
In actuality, the Prime Minister by no means made such a promise. While talking about Black Money stashed overseas, he had solely stated rhetorically that the quantity stashed overseas is so massive that if the Indian authorities might reach bringing again all of that, then each citizen would get 15 lakh rupees of their account.
12. Mamata’s lies over the coronavirus vaccines
Ahead of the 2021 state Assembly elections, the West Bengal chief minister accused the Modi authorities of sitting over her request to vaccinate all. She stated that her authorities was able to vaccinate the individuals of the state at no cost, however the central authorities was not offering the state with satisfactory doses of vaccination.
“A month back, before the elections, I had written to the Prime Minister. We want to vaccinate all people in Bengal at our own cost…but they have not allowed us”, stated Mamata Banerjee in an evident claimed to impress her voters.
This declare solely added to the checklist of umpteen lies peddled by the Bengal CM through the years. The central authorities cleared that West Bengal had been equipped with over 52.9 lakh vaccine doses, of which solely 30.8 lakh had been used as much as that point.
13. Mamata says BJP broke Bihar ballot manifesto promise of free vaccines
Last yr, Mamata Banerjee accused BJP of breaking its Bihar ballot manifesto promise. She stated that within the run-up to the Bihar Assembly election, BJP had promised to offer free COVID vaccines for the state’s individuals in the event that they got here again to energy, however it was solely a gimmick for political good points, she claimed.
However, it turned out that Mamata Banerjee was mendacity blatantly once more. The Bihar authorities introduced in March 2021, that the state authorities had determined to bear your entire value of the coronavirus vaccination even on the personal hospitals within the state. Basically, taking its ballot promise to offer free vaccine to all, the cabinet authorised the proposal of the Bihar authorities to offer free vaccine to all of the individuals of the state and Mamata Banerjee was as soon as once more left red-faced.
14. Mamata Banerjee claims vaccines of Dengue and Malaria are given free in Bengal
The Chief Minister of West Bengal, whereas addressing a rally in Jhargram forward of West Bengal elections, misleadingly claimed that vaccines of Dengue and Malaria are given free in West Bengal.
Taking a jibe at PM Narendra Modi Mamata Banerjee stated in Jhargram: “I say give COVID injections to common people, but till Central government does not give permission, nothing can happen. I am saying to you (referring to Narendra Modi) that give me the coronavirus vaccine, I will pay for it; so that I can make the coronavirus vaccine available for everyone for free”.
Today, if we can provide free vaccines for polio, malaria, and dengue, we are able to additionally give Covishield,” she added.
Interestingly, this turned out to be one in every of Mamata’s main fake pas as no authorities on this planet has by far offered any vaccines for Dengue or Malaria.
According to the National Health Mission, the federal government of India began the Immunization Programme in 1978, intending to guard the youngsters from preventable life-threatening circumstances.
Under this immunization programme, the federal government presently gives the next vaccines to youngsters and newborns: BCG vaccines, Hepatitis B vaccines, Rotavirus vaccines, oral poliovirus vaccines, inactivated Polio Vaccine, Pentavalent vaccine (which protects from diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenza sort B), Measles vaccine, Vitamin A, DPT Vaccine (which protects towards diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), and tetanus), Tetanus Vaccine. However, as claimed by none apart from the West Bengal CM, no different vaccines like Dengue and Malaria are offered by any authorities.
15. You are a citizen provided that your identify is on the voter’s checklist
Every time the West Bengal Chief Minister has gone on her senseless rant towards the central authorities she has outdone her self. While addressing a rally within the state, Mamata had claimed that if an individual doesn’t solid his or her vote, Modi will strike off their identify from the voter’s checklist and declare that they don’t seem to be Indian residents, she stated.
“Just ensure your names are there in the voters’ list. The rest will be taken care of by me,” she stated, including, “no one will have to leave the country.”
This was, nevertheless, a white lie, promulgated by the TMC supremo to degrade the central management and to woo her voters. In actuality there isn’t a such rule. Whether a not an individual votes, the voter identification card won’t ever get cancelled.
16. Mamata Banerjee spreads misinformation on Centre’s ‘Ayushman Bharat’ scheme
While pulling out from Centre’s ‘Ayushman Bharat’ scheme, the West Bengal CM had falsely claimed that 40 p.c of the funds for the Ayushman scheme must be borne by the sufferers themselves.
Here too, with a sole intention to berate Modi and his flagship medical health insurance scheme, Mamata had gone on to trump-up a narrative which was something however true.
The truth is that the PradhanMantri Jan ArogyaYojana (AB-PMJAY), deemed the biggest on this planet, to offer free medical health insurance to India’s poor and marginalised households, is a centrally sponsored scheme.
Under this scheme, the Modi authorities seeks to offer 10.74 crore poor households throughout India a reimbursement of as much as ₹5 lakh per yr in direction of the hospitalisation bills of their members of the family. Apart from the bills on in-patient therapy, the scheme additionally covers pre-and post-hospitalisation prices to some extent
Most importantly, the ratio of contribution in direction of premium between Centre and State is 60:40 in all States besides the North Eastern States and the three Himalayan States, the place the ratio is 90:10. This means, that the 40 per cent premium which Mamata claims needed to be borne by the sufferers doesn’t maintain grounds. The affected person has to solely pay Rs 30 for an utility kind, that too is free for gold cardholders.
Amusingly, quickly after Mamata made this weird accusation on the central authorities, she herself was caught in her personal net of lies. In January 2019 she introduced that she had determined to tug out from Centre’s ‘Ayushman Bharat’ scheme, accusing PM Modi of taking full credit score for the scheme and ignoring State’s contribution. ANI had reported Mamata Banerjee as then saying: “My state will not contribute 40% of the funds for the Ayushman scheme. Centre has to pay the full amount if Centre wants to run the scheme”.
The level right here is that if, in response to her, the sufferers should bear 40% of the premium, why did she say that her state wouldn’t contribute 40% of the funds for the Ayushman scheme and requested the Centre to pay the complete quantity?
17. Politics over the cyclonic storm Fani that wreaked havoc in WB in 2019
The West Bengal CM didn’t even draw back from utilizing a pure catastrophe to solid aspersions on the Modi authorities. In 2019, whereas the individuals of Odisha and West Bengal have been grappling to deal with the devastation attributable to Cyclone Fani, Mamata Banerjee had tried to create a political controversy over the cyclone when she had alleged that the PM, whereas he visited Odisha, had not referred to as her.
She had hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for calling West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi as a substitute of speaking to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to inquire in regards to the floor scenario within the wake of cyclone Fani, and alleged Modi doesn’t respect the federal construction of the nation.
However, her claims have been quickly refuted by the PMO and it was revealed that PM Modi had tried to talk to Mamata Banerjee twice to entry the cyclone scenario within the state, however the Bengal CM had not returned his calls.
18. Politics over cyclone Amphan
In May 2020, when cyclone Amphan hit the state of West Bengal, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee had tried to solid the Modi authorities in an unprepossessing mild, apathetic to the plight of victims of the cyclone.
She had claimed that Bengal bought no monetary help from the central management. While PM Modi stated in clear and lucid phrases that the centre will likely be extending an “advance assistance” of Rs 1000 crore for West Bengal to deal with the devastation attributable to the cyclone, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee appeared to intentionally muddle the discourse by claiming that there was no readability on the announcement made by the Prime Minister.
The truth is that aside from the emergency monetary support of Rs 1,000 crore given prematurely to West Bengal to tide over the destruction brought on within the state by Cyclone Amphan, the Modi authorities had additionally authorised extra monetary help of Rs 2707.77 crores for Cyclone Amphan survivors below the National Disaster Response Fund.
19. Mamata Banerjee unfold faux information about Shramik practice
The TMC chief, a strident critic of the Modi authorities, had discredited the Shramik trains service that the federal government has began to move migrants again to their house states with lies and conjectures. She had slammed the Railways for sending ‘corona express’ to her state. “We are paying for 235 trains but then why are two to three people being made to sit on one seat? The railways, in the name of Shramik Special trains, are running ‘Corona Express’ trains. The people are calling these trains ‘Corona Express.”
However, the reality was that Indian Railways has issued a set of tips for its zones for working the Shramik particular trains to ferry stranded individuals, saying the trains would function at 90 per cent occupancy. It had additionally specified that every Shramik Special practice can be a continuous practice certain for a single vacation spot. It additionally stated that the practice with full size composition with social distancing (not counting the within center berths) can carry roughly 1200 passengers every.
20. Mamata lies, says by no means referred to as ‘Shramik’ trains ‘Corona Express’
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in June final yr, denied having referred to as the ‘Shramik Special’ trains, which ferried migrant labourers again house throughout the lockdown as “Corona Express”, as alleged by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and insisted the identify was given by individuals to crammed-to-capacity trains.
Her feedback got here a day after Shah, addressing a digital rally for West Bengal, accused Banerjee of “insulting” migrant staff returning to the state on Shramik Special trains by calling them ‘Corona Express’.
“More than 11 lakh migrants have returned to Bengal. I never called the migrant special trains ‘Corona Express’. The common people gave them that name,” she instructed reporters.
21. Mamata’s Durga Puja Rs 50,000 bonanza
Mamata introduced Rs 50,000 monetary grant for puja organisers in 2020. Soon the High Court rapped up the TMC authorities for offering the Durga Puja bonanza to organisers. Slamming the Mamata govt for spending public cash on organizing leisure occasions or festivals, the courtroom requested the state if tips had been laid down for such expenditures.
The state administration had then instructed the courtroom that the grant was meant to assist improve public consciousness about Covid-19 protocols, and buy of sanitisers and masks.
22. Mamata Banerjee claimed PM Modi endorsed Trump for President
Mamata had tried to unfold lies that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had throughout the mega occasion held in Houston, Texas, endorsed President Trump for the 2020 US Presidential elections.
Contrary to the claims made by the TMC chief saying that Prime Minister Modi had endorsed Donald Trump for the US Presidential elections, PM Modi had by no means endorsed or tried to intrude within the 2020 US elections.
At the mega ‘Howdy Modi’ occasion held in Houston in September final yr, Texas, Prime Minister Modi had reminded the viewers as to how throughout the 2016 US Presidential campaigning, Donald Trump had stated ‘Abki Baar Trump Sarkar’ whereas interesting to Indian diaspora within the US.
While addressing the Indian diaspora within the US, Prime Minister Modi had recalled the above marketing campaign slogan by Trump, opposite to the declare that he was endorsing Donald Trump forward of the 2020 US elections.
23. Mamata Banerjee’s politics over PM Cares Fund
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has again and again accused the Centre of utilizing central businesses to bulldoze the nation’s federal construction and sought to know the place is the cash of Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) fund.
However, the actual fact is that the PM CARES Fund Trust has allotted Rs 2000 crore for provide of 50000 ‘Made-in-India’ ventilators to authorities run COVID hospitals in all States/UTs. Further, a sum of Rs. 1000 crore has been allotted for the welfare of migrant labourers. And apparently, out of this 1000 crores, West Bengal has been allotted Rs 53 crore grant.
24. Mamata claims of not receiving any help from central govt to take care of coronavirus within the state
The Trinamool Congress on November 28, 2020 claimed that the Mamata Banerjee administration has to this point spent Rs 4,000 crore on COVID-19 administration in West Bengal and has not obtained any help from the BJP-led NDA authorities on the Centre to take care of the pandemic scenario.
Bengal’s share from SDRF, Centre contributes 75% to the SDRF for common class states The fact is, nevertheless, removed from these faux claims made by the TMC supremo. The West Bengal authorities had obtained Rs 505 crores in April 2020 below the State Disaster Risk Management Fund (SDRMF) to take measures for the containment of the pandemic. Besides the WB Govt additionally obtained 1000 ventilators below the PM Care scheme.
25. Modi govt did nothing for WB within the final six years, claims Mamata Banerjee
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has claimed TMC ushered in a brand new period of improvement in West Bengal and accused the BJP authorities on the Centre of not doing sufficient for the state within the final six years. But the reality is that Mamata Banerjee has for all this whereas craftily been rechristening the Center’s welfare schemes with Bengali names to take credit score.
For instance, the Mamata Government dropped “Pradhan Mantri” from the Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana scheme. She rechristened the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna scheme to Banglar Awas Yojna. Moreover, she renamed Swacha Bharat Abhiyan to Nirmal Bangla, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Antyodaya Yojana as Anandadhara, Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana as Bangla Griha Prakalpa and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana as Sabar Ghare Alo which interprets to lights in everybody’s house.
Speaking in regards to the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna scheme, the price of unit help is shared between Central and State Government within the ratio 60:40. Moreover, in the event you go to the West Bengal authorities web site all specs below the Banglar Awas Yojna is similar because the central authorities’s Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna.
In WB, greater than 1 crore BPL holders have gotten LPG below the central govt’s Ujjwala Yojana. Moreover, funds allotted by the central govt below Swacha Bharat Abhiyan has been utilised by the Mamata govt for its Mission Nirmal Bangla.
The street that leads as much as 2nd May 2021, when the outcomes of the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections can be declared has been suffering from TMC chief, Mamata Banerjee’s, lies. Now, it could be fascinating to look at whether or not these lies peddled by Mamata Banerjee would really assist her obtain her targets or BJP would create historical past by placing an finish to her years of undefeated reign. Only time can inform.
