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  • Varun Dhawan begins capturing for Amar Kaushik’s Bhediya in Arunachal Pradesh

    Varun Dhawan is already again to work after his marriage to Natasha Dalal earlier this 12 months. The younger actor is off to Arunachal Pradesh the place he has began capturing for Amar Kaushik’s Bhediya. The movie marks Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon’s reunion after the 2 featured collectively in Rohit Shetty’s Dilwale in 2015.
    A supply near the venture informed indianexpress.com, “The two of them (Varun and Kriti) have already worked together before, so they are aware of how they approach the script. Varun had really liked Stree and was quite excited to do a film in the same genre, which was helmed by the same director. His character is close to a monster in this project.”
    The supply provides, “The film’s shoot will go on till May, it is a long schedule as the film will have a good amount of VFX and prosthetics, which is time consuming and necessary for any horror film. This is the first time Varun is trying a new genre of this kind, and he wants to give his best!”

    After Amar Kaushik’s Stree, the makers of the movie have bankrolled Roohi in the identical style, starring Rakummar Rao and Janhvi Kapoor. With these movies, Dinesh Vijan of Maddock Films is making a horror-comedy universe. The manufacturing home will even again Mujha, a prequel to Stree after wrapping Bhediya.
    Along with Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon, Bhediya will even star Abhishek Banerjee in a pivotal function. An official announcement on the venture is due quickly. The movie will hit theatres later this 12 months.
     

  • Rakesh Tikait says farmers motion set to increase to Bengal

    Image Source : PTI Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait at Ghazipur border throughout the ongoing farmers agitation towards the three farm legal guidelines, in New Delhi.
    Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) chief Rakesh Tikait has stated that the farm motion would prolong to the state of West Bengal within the coming days.

    Speaking to IANS, Tikait stated, “Is West Bengal an outside state? Then why can’t we go to West Bengal? The farmers there are not getting good rates for their crops.”

    He additional stated that Bengal is close to the ocean and the farmers there concerned in fish farming are a troubled lot. Tikait added that imports are growing there whereas many fishermen have misplaced their lives in Bengal.

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    He stated they’re planning to go to West Bengal not as a result of it’s a poll-bound state, however to additional unfold consciousness concerning the farmers’ situation.

    Tikait additionally stated {that a} mahapanchayat might be held in West Bengal within the coming days.

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  • ‘Even after my throat is minimize I’ll say…’: Mamata’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee in South Kolkata

    Image Source : PTI Even after my throat is minimize I’ll say ‘Jai Bangla’ & ‘Jai Mamata Banerjee’. No matter what, Mamata Banerjee is not going to bow down her head earlier than Delhi, says Abhishek Banerjee.
    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee throughout a rally in South Kolkata on Saturday as soon as once more coined the ‘outsiders’ comment on the BJP.

    Lashing out on the saffron celebration, Abhishek Banerjee stated, “they (BJP) are thinking that they can buy votes. I want to say that you take money from them but vote for the ‘joda phool’ (TMC’s symbol). This is a fight to eradicate the outsiders who are trying to impose their culture on us.”

    “Even after my throat is cut I will say ‘Jai Bangla’ & ‘Jai Mamata Banerjee’. No matter what, Mamata Banerjee will not bow down her head before Delhi,” Abhishek Banerjee stated. 

    Abhishek Banerjee’s remarks got here a day after TMC chief and Rajya Sabha MP Dinesh Trivedi resigned from the celebration. Trivedi alleged that he was feeling suffocated and helpless.

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    “I am resigning from the party as there is violence in my state, I am grateful to my party that it sent me here. I am feeling suffocated that we are not able to do anything over violence in the state,” stated Trivedi, whereas making the announcement on the ground of the Upper House.

    “I will continue to serve the people of Bengal but my soul tells me that if you can’t do anything sitting here, then resign,” stated Trivedi.

    Earlier within the day, BJP chief Rajib Banerjee whereas talking on Dinesh Trivedi resignation from TMC stated, “People who want to do something for the betterment of Bengal cannot continue with Trinamool Congress. I have heard from some sources that he is going to join Bharatiya Janata Party.”

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  • Will stop if Centre brings legislation permitting just one member of household in politics: Mamata Banerjee’s nephew

    Image Source : PTI Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjees nephew Abhishek Banerjee addresses a public rally.
    In a direct problem to his detractors within the BJP, TMC MP and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday
    stated he’ll stop politics if the Centre brings a legislation permitting just one member of a household in politics. Banerjee stated he’ll publicly grasp himself if the corruption costs levelled towards him are proved to be true.
    The Diamond Harbour MP, whereas addressing a rally in Kultali meeting constituency, stated Prime Minister Narendra Modi ought to desk a invoice banning multiple member of a household from energetic politics and the subsequent second, Banerjee will now not be within the political enviornment.
    “From Kailash Vijayvargiya to Suvendu Adhikari, Mukul Roy to Rajnath Singh, there are different members of your households who occupy necessary posts within the BJP.
    “If you ensure that there will be only one family member in active politics, there will be only Mamata Banerjee from our family in the TMC from the next moment. I promise that,” he stated.
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    Taking exception to BJP leaders calling him an “extortionist”, Banerjee challenged them to show their allegations and stated he’ll publicly grasp himself if the costs towards him are proved to be true.
    Referring to the Victoria Memorial incident throughout a programme on the event of the a hundred and twenty fifth delivery anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose on Saturday, he stated ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans had been intentionally raised to forestall Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from delivering her speech.

    The chief minister had refused to ship her speech after the slogans had been raised within the presence of the prime minister, saying she felt insulted.
    “We are proud that Mamata Banerjee made it clear that if Netaji is insulted by such slogans during a government function, we will rise in protest. Bengal will rise in protest,” the TMC MP stated.
    “You can chant Jai Shri Ram thousand times, but at temples, at religious functions, at your place but not in this fashion at a government programme to commemorate an icon like Netaji,” he stated.
    By not permitting her to make her speech in such a programme, additionally they insulted the individuals who elected her to the meeting. This reminded folks of the vandalism of the Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar bust in 2019, he stated.
    Coming down closely on BJP chief Sovan Chatterjee, the TMC chief stated, “After waking up from hibernation after three years, he is now making a false claim that he was instrumental in my victory in Diamond Harbour in 2014. He should know what people in the area think about him.”
    Without naming Chatterjee, a TMC turncoat who joined the BJP in 2019, Banerjee challenged him to contest any of the 31 seats in South 24 Parganas district.
    On Banerjee’s feedback on dynasty politics, state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh stated that the TMC MP had by no means raised such calls for earlier and is making such statements now because the get together is confronted with imminent defeat within the meeting elections due in April-May. 
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  • Satabdi Roy ends suspense; ‘I’m with TMC’, she says after assembly Abhishek Banerjee

    Image Source : ANI Satabdi Roy is a three-time MP from West Bengal’s Birbhum.
    Hours after giving the Trinamool Congress a scare, Actor-turned-politician Satabdi Roy on Friday night rejected studies about her leaving Mamata Banerjee’s celebration. There had been studies that Roy will likely be flying to New Delhi on Saturday, January 16, to fulfill Union Home Minister Amit Shah. 

    Roy admitted that there have been points between her and the TMC management, nonetheless, added that these have been resolved.

    “I held talks with Abhishek Banerjee today and he addressed the issues raised by me. I am not going to Delhi tomorrow. I am going to remain with TMC,” information company ANI quoted Satabdi Roy, as saying. 

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    In a social media submit on her ‘Satabdi Roy Fan Club’ Facebook web page, the Birbhum MP had stated that the explanation behind her absence in celebration programmes in her constituency is as a result of she isn’t knowledgeable concerning the schedules prematurely.

    The three-time Birbhum MP had stated she’s going to inform the general public at 2 pm on Saturday if she takes any “decision”, inflicting ripples within the TMC.

    As per celebration sources, Roy is having variations with Birbhum district TMC chief Anubrata Mondal.

    “I’ve a detailed reference to this constituency. But lately many individuals have been asking me why I’m lacking from a number of celebration programmes.

    “I want to tell them that I want to attend all programmes. But I don’t get to know about many programmes and if I am not even informed about events in my constituency, then how can I attend. I was mentally pained because of this,” Roy’s submit in her followers’ membership web page learn.

    After a protracted and profitable profession within the Bengali movie business, Satabdi Roy joined politics within the ultimate years of the Left Front authorities within the state.

    She was a part of the TMC’s cultural brigade of celebrities with mass enchantment in Mamata Banerjee’s try and unseat the Left from energy within the state.

    Roy had first contested and received the Birbhum seat on a TMC ticket in 2009. She went on to win the seat in 2014 and 2019.

    (With Inputs from PTI)

  • TMC working with legal intuition, BJP will win in Bengal: Nadda rips aside Mamata govt | Key factors

    Image Source : PTI BJP National President JP Nadda addresses a Krishak Suraksha Sabha at Katwa, in Burdwan district of West Bengal, Saturday, Jan 9.
    Lashing out on the TMC over its outsider-insider debate, BJP chief JP Nadda on Saturday questioned whether or not attaching adjectives to his title
    and attacking his convoy is part of West Bengal’s tradition. In a latest video, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was seen purportedly mocking Nadda’s surname. Nadda alleged there’s misgovernance in West Bengal, the federal government equipment has been politicised, politics criminalised with the homicide of opponents and crimes in opposition to girls have develop into rampant. Stones had been hurled on the BJP chief’s convoy throughout his go to to Diamond Harbour in South 24 Parganas district on December 10 final yr.

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    Addressing BJP staff, folks in Bengal after his day-long go to, JP Nadda attacked the TMC-led authorities within the state saying, “there have been discussions by the TMC on people coming from outside West Bengal but what about the acts committed by the party and its supremo that go against the traditions, heritage and culture of the state.”
    Pointing on the crowd from his truck adorned with flowers, “Look at them. They are not BJP leaders but people of West Bengal. Mamata Ji, there have been talks by you and your party about people coming from outside. I want to ask you if attaching adjectives to my name is a part of the state’s culture?” he stated.
    “I want to ask you if hurling objects at my convoy in Diamond Harbour is a part of West Bengal’s culture. I want to ask the TMC if extortion activities by syndicates in coal, cattle and sand smuggling and taking ‘cut-money’ goes in sync with the state’s culture. The answer is no. The TMC has lost the right to talk about West Bengal’s culture,” Nadda stated to thundering applause.
    Claiming that solely the BJP can carry ahead the legacy of Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and different icons of West Bengal, Nadda stated the BJP follows the beliefs of Jan Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee who believed {that a} single nation can not have two flags.
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    Describing his kilometre-long roadshow as “historic”, Nadda stated folks of the state have given a “quit notice” to the Mamata Banerjee authorities. Nadda accused the state authorities of depriving the folks of the state of the advantages of central schemes like PM Kisan Samman Nidhi and Ayushman Bharat.
    He alleged that the TMC authorities is scared to face the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) audit report on reduction within the aftermath of tremendous cyclone Amphan.
    Thousands of BJP staff had hit the Grand Trunk Road on a stretch from Clock Tower to Curzon Gate within the coronary heart of Barddhaman city as Nadda, holding a reproduction of a plough, showered petals and waved at them from his car.
    BJP leaders from West Bengal comparable to state chief Dilip Ghosh, Asansol MP and Union minister Babul Supriyo, Barddhaman-Durgapur MP SS Ahluwalia and Rahul Sinha accompanied Nadda on the truck. Nadda later supplied puja on the Sarbamangala temple within the city.
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  • EXCLUSIVE | TMC has turn into an organization with Mamata as chairman, Abhishek as MD: Suvendu Adhikari

    Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Suvendu Adhikari, who was as soon as thought-about to be a detailed aide of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, has described his former get together — Trinamool Congress (TMC) — as a ‘non-public restricted firm’. In an unique dialog with India TV, Adhikari minced no phrases to slam Mamata Banerjee whereas accusing her of favouring nephew Abhishek Banerjee and several other different senior Trinamool leaders.

    Adhikari criticised Mamata saying when a political get together turns into a ‘firm’ and left to inexperienced individuals like Abhishek, one has to half methods. He questioned TMC’s intention to serve the individuals of Bengal.

    Adhikari lauded the BJP saying it is going to kind the subsequent authorities in Bengal and fulfill the dream of ‘Sonar Bangla’.  He stated the saffron get together believes in ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vishwas’ and can deliver ‘Ram Rajya’ (good governance) in Bengal. 

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    The individuals of Bengal are with the BJP. TMC might attempt to break the connection, however it will not succeed.
    TMC, a politicial get together has now become a ‘non-public restricted firm. TMC’s chairman is Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee is the managing director. And I-PAC (Prashant Kishor) is ‘thekedar’ (contractor) of TMC firm.
    I used to be eliminated because the president of youth brigade of TMC in 2014 and he (Abhishek) was given the cost. Everything was performed as per a plan. Even Somen Mitra, a senior chief, was faraway from his parliamentary seat.
    Picture abhi baaki hai, ye to trailer chal rha hai. BJP will get clear majority.
    I’m feeling excellent, I’m having fun with. Didi has been abusing me each day. This reveals that I’ve disturbed TMC’s vote share already.
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    Amit Shah has already stated that the BJP will win 200 seats in Bengal, and it’ll occur.
    Mamata Didi is busy in appeasing the minority. However, it will not work. Issues like electrical energy, street, training proceed to be uncared for. Nothing has been performed for the downtrodden and poor individuals.
    Ram does not belong to at least one specific group or any get together. Ram Rajya and Sushasan (good governance) is our precedence.
    There is not any place for violence in politics. This ought to finish. Roots of political violence should be pulled out and solely BJP can do it.
    BJP is the one get together that may fulfill the dream of ‘Sonar Bangla’. People will reject TMC and elect BJP this time.
    Suvendu Adhikari had resigned from TMC and joined the BJP within the presence of Union Home Home Minister Amit Shah throughout a rally in Midnapore on December 19, 2020.
    Adhikari was the face of the Nandigram motion that propelled Mamata Banerjee to energy in Bengal in 2011. Adhikari’s father Sisir Adhikari and brother Dibyendu are sitting TMC MPs from Tamluk and Kanthi Lok Sabha constituencies respectively.
    The Adhikari household is taken into account to be an influencial within the Junglemahal area having over 40 meeting segments. The household additionally has a following is a few minority-dominated Murshidabad district.
    (With inputs from Pawan Nara)

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  • If it is confirmed I’m extortionist nephew… I’ll grasp myself, says Abhishek Banerjee

    Image Source : ANI If it is confirmed I’m extortionist nephew… I’ll grasp myself, says Abhishek Banerjee.
    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and TMC MLA Abhishek Banerjee, talking at a rally at Dakshin Dinajpur, rejected ‘extortion’ allegations in opposition to him. “If it’s proven I’m extortionist nephew (‘tolabaj bhaipo’), direct me to gallows, I’ll hang myself. You don’t need ED or CBI.”

    The TMC and BJP are at loggerheads with leaders from each the events leaving no alternative to hit out at one another, forward of the Assembly Election 2021. While rejecting allegations on him, Abhishek additionally hit out on the BJP saying, “Kailash Vijayawargiya is an outsider and his son is a ‘gunda’. Dilip Ghosh is a ‘gunda’.

    Earlier, claiming that the BJP was shedding floor in lots of states, the TMC on Thursday contended that Mamata Banerjee will return to energy for a 3rd consecutive time period in West Bengal. TMC chief and state minister Chandrima Bhattacharya stated that her occasion has fared higher in 2019 Lok Sabha elections by way of vote share in comparison with 2014 parliamentary polls in Bengal. She stated that the TMC, which acquired 39.70 per cent votes in 2014 Lok Sabha elections, elevated its share to 43.3 per cent in 2019.

    “There is no doubt that Didi (Mamata Banerjee) will return for the third time. The BJP is daydreaming of coming to power,” she stated, addressing a press convention. The saffron occasion, which had received solely two Lok Sabha seats in 2014, triumphed in 18 of the 42 constituencies within the state throughout 2019 elections with 40.7 per cent vote share, rising as the principle opponent of the ruling TMC.

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    Maintaining that the BJP’s declare of a pan-India help was not true, Bhattacharya stated, “The party has lost 66 per cent Assembly seats in the country and are in clear majority only in 12 states.” The West Bengal minister of state for well being and legislation and justice additional stated that the saffron camp has not been capable of bag any seat in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, and has lower than 10 seats every in 9 different states.

    “In Tamil Nadu, it has failed to secure any seat out of the 234 constituencies. The saffron party secured just one out of 140 seats in Kerala, two out of 119 in Telangana, eight out of 70 in Delhi, 14 of 90 in Chhattisgarh, 25 of 81 seats in Jharkhand, 105 of 288 constituencies in Maharashtra, two out of 117 in Punjab and six out of 294 in Bengal,” she stated.

    Bhattacharya asserted that in most states the place the saffron occasion is a part of the coalition authorities, it has just a few seats in its kitty – two out of 40 in Meghalaya and 12 out of 60 in Nagaland.

    Putting forth extra figures to buttress her declare, the TMC chief stated that the saffron occasion, which received 51 per cent votes in Maharashtra in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, had its share lowered to 42 per cent in state’s meeting polls, a couple of months later the identical yr.

    “In Haryana, it got 58 per cent votes in 2019 parliamentary polls, but could manage only 36 per cent a few months later during the state elections,” she stated. The minister, throughout her press meet, additionally paid homage to the “martyrs” of the land acquisition agitation, on the 14th anniversary of Nandigram bloodbath.

    She stated that the occasion has the very best regards for individuals who sacrificed their lives throughout protests in Singur, Nandigram and elsewhere within the state.

    At least six individuals had been killed on January 7 in 2007 at Nandigram in East Midnapore district, marking the start of the anti-land acquisition motion. It was on the identical date in 2011 that 9 extra individuals had been killed at Netai in West Midnapore district.

    Claiming that the ‘Duare Sarkar’ (authorities at doorsteps) challenge taken up by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was considered one of its variety, Bhattacharya stated greater than 1.82 crore individuals have to date visited quite a few camps arrange throughout the state for the aim to avail the advantages of assorted state-run schemes.

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  • Mamata Banerjee nephew equates turncoats with asymptomatic COVID-19 sufferers

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    Image Source : TWITTER Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday equated social gathering turncoats who not too long ago joined the BJP with asymptomatic COVID-19 sufferers who had “betrayed” the ruling social gathering in West Bengal within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and had been “sabotaging” it from inside. The TMC youth wing chief, who can be Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee”s nephew, with out naming anybody, mentioned some individuals have carried out a political somersault to affix the BJP to cease getting hounded by the CBI and the ED. “There were some people in the party who were like asymptomatic COVID-19 patients. We tracked their activities and identified them. We are happy to get rid of such viruses who had betrayed the party in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and had been sabotaging the party since the past few months,” the Diamond Harbour MP mentioned, whereas addressing a rally in his constituency. Former state minister Suvendu Adhikari together with 9 MLAs, 5 of them from the TMC, and a celebration MP joined the BJP throughout Union Home Minister Amit Shah”s rally at Medinipur on December 19. “Those wishing to leave the TMC for selfish reasons are free to do so. If you have the courage, float your own party like Mamata Banerjee did in 1998. She had not joined the BJP or the CPI (M),” he mentioned. In response to Adhikari”s branding him as an extortionist, Banerjee mentioned that whereas his title has by no means cropped up within the Narada sting or different scams, but it surely was the accuser who ought to maintain a mirror to himself. Without taking Adhikari”s title, he mentioned, “You have raised the slogan to remove extortionist ”bhaipo” (nephew). Whose name figured in Narada sting operation? I am not involved in either Narada sting or Saradha scam. You took a sudden political somersault to save yourself from central agencies like CBI and ED.” “If you can prove that I had ever been involved in extortion activities, I will accept any punishment in the court of the people. If you have guts, deploy CBI or ED after me,” he mentioned. Denying the BJP”s allegations that some senior TMC leaders are concerned in coal and cattle smuggling, Banerjee mentioned, “Cattle smuggling is related to the international border manned by the BSF under the Union Home Ministry. Preventing the smuggling of coal from mines is the Coal Ministry”s responsibility. Both are under the BJP. Why are they levelling false allegations against us?” Referring to expenses that Mamata Banerjee had facilitated the BJP”s entry to West Bengal, the younger parliamentarian mentioned, “When she had ties with the BJP, its party flag was not stained with blood. That was a different BJP led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee.” He branded the turncoats as individuals who betrayed the soil of West Bengal by becoming a member of arms with “forces that vandalised the bust of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar” in Kolkata throughout final yr”s Lok Sabha elections. A bust of the enduring social reformer was desecrated in a university in Kolkata throughout the then BJP chief Amit Shah”s rally. The TMC alleged that the BJP activists had been behind the incident. In an obvious jibe at Adhikari, Banerjee mentioned, “You have failed to bloom the lotus in your own house. How can you make the lotus bloom in the entire state?” Suvendu Adhikari”s father and Kanthi MP Sisir Adhikari, brother and Kanthi MP Soumendu Adhikari and youthful brother and Kanthi Municipality Chairman Soumendu Adhikari are nonetheless with the TMC. Banerjee sarcastically commented, “If you call Amit Shah as your new elder brother, is his son your nephew?” Referring to the assault on BJP chief J P Nadda”s convoy on December 10, Banerjee mentioned, “Maybe someone hurled a single brick due to frustration over anti-people policies of the BJP government at the Centre. I would request people not to vent their ire by throwing stones, instead through the EVM.” He claimed “not more than 450 people” attended Nadda”s rally in Diamond Harbour. “This shows that the BJP has no support base in the state and survives only through media hype,” he mentioned. Banerjee mentioned BJP leaders just like the social gathering”s state chief Dilip Ghosh are issuing threats to interrupt arms and limbs, that are extra befitting for goons. “Actually, they are spineless for lacking support of the people,” he mentioned. Taking a jibe at Union Home Minister Amit Shah for having lunch at poor individuals”s homes throughout his visits to the state, Banerjee mentioned, “It seems he likes to have lunch with TV cameras reporting every bite. What about visiting the agitating farmers on the Delhi-Haryana border? Why doesn’t he go there to have lunch? Because he doesn’t have that courage.” He claimed that the Centre has stopped the allocation of Rs 5 crore for the event of his constituency beneath the MPLADS funds since March final yr. “If you are really pro-people, don’t withhold that amount citing COVID-19 situation. Instead, you stop the monthly salary of MPs for that period. The BJP government never thinks twice before buying planes but blocks money meant for common people,” Banerjee added.  ALSO READ | ‘Ashamed of associating with TMC for 21 years’: New BJP entrant Suvendu Adhikari lashes out at Mamata Latest India News

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