Mamata makes an attempt to blunt BJP’s allegation over PM Kisan Scheme, agrees to implement it in Bengal

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Image Source : PTI File picture: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a press convention on the state secretariat Nabanna in Kolkata.
BJP nationwide normal secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Friday stated that the saffron celebration, after voted to energy in West Bengal, will make sure that
every farmer of the state will get Rs 18,000 in arrears below the PM Kisan scheme. The assertion of Vijayvargiya, the BJP’s West Bengal in-charge, got here days after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee agreed to implement the central scheme within the state, below which farmers get Rs 6,000 a 12 months in three equal instalments.

The resolution of the Trinamool Congress supremo, taken months earlier than the meeting election, is being seen as a transfer to blunt the BJP’s accusation that her celebration is stopping farmers of the state from getting advantages of the scheme.

“Farmers of Bengal will get their due after the Mamata Banerjee government goes and the BJP government comes to power,” Vijayvargiya stated, whereas addressing a celebration rally at Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district.

They can be paid Rs 18,000 every in arrears, the quantity which has already been transferred to the financial institution accounts of farmers in the remainder of the nation, he stated. The mafia controls coal and sand mining within the state and indulges in cattle smuggling, he alleged, asserting that these concerned in such rackets can be pushed out of the state by the BJP.

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Describing the TMC as a virus, the BJP’s West Bengal president Dilip Ghosh who additionally addressed the rally, stated that his personal celebration is its vaccine which can make the ruling celebration go away the state after May.

The meeting election within the state is due in April-May. Claiming that the BJP already has 1.5 crore members in West Bengal, Ghosh stated that just about 29,000 instances have been filed in opposition to BJP employees within the state to intimidate them.

“The previous Left Front and the current TMC dispensation failed to deliver. The BJP will ensure that the state marches ahead in the path of development,” he stated. Ghosh alleged that the cash meant for reduction after cyclone Amphan has been looted and misappropriated by TMC employees and leaders.

“The parivartan (change) people had hoped for after the TMC came to power proved a mirage and now there’s the need for another parivartan,” he stated. Ministers and leaders of the TMC are leaving the celebration as they aren’t getting due respect and place, the BJP state president claimed.

“Mamata Banerjee is now accusing us of breaking her party. What had she done to other parties earlier in the state?” he requested, claiming that the TMC had made a number of MLAs of the Congress and Left events be part of the celebration.

Holding that the anti-land acquisition motion of the TMC at Singur, which led to the shifting of Tata Motors’ Nano automotive plant to Gujarat, was “wrong”, BJP nationwide vice chairman Mukul Roy stated that West Bengal didn’t get any trade for the reason that firm was compelled to go away.

“If we win the elections, we will urge the prime minister to get the Tatas back in Singur for the sake of rejuvenation of industry in the state,” stated Roy who was within the TMC through the motion at Singur. He, nonetheless, stated that Nandigram agitation was a distinct subject for the reason that Left Front authorities had forcibly taken away land from poor farmers, and Suvendu Adhikari led that motion of the individuals.

Adhikari, who lately resigned because the TMC MLA of Nandigram and joined the BJP, alleged that stones have been thrown through the assembly to create chaos and disturbance.

“Even the CPI(M) during its rule had not done any such thing when the TMC held meetings,” Adhikari stated.

He thanked BJP leaders L Ok Advani, Rajnath Singh and the late Sushma Swaraj for his or her help to the Nandigram motion in 2007 in opposition to the Left Front governments transfer to accumulate farmlands for organising a particular financial zone (SEZ).

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