Scams fallout: Trinamool to give attention to sustaining clear picture, to go all out towards BJP

By PTI

NEW DELHI: The “democracy-is-dead” chorus is unlikely to be efficient in cornering the Narendra Modi dispensation, Trinamool Congress sources stated on Thursday and added the get together is drawing a listing of 12 guarantees that the BJP made however did not fulfil for its campaign towards the federal government.

Among the dozen guarantees that the Mamata Banerjee-led get together plans to take as much as nook the BJP authorities are the doubling of farmers’ earnings by 2022 and homes for all.

“We have kept it simple. We want to remind the Modi government of the promises it made to the people and also show them how they have failed,” TMC MP Derek O’Brien stated.

TMC sources stated it could be not possible to place the federal government on the backfoot via the “democracy is dead” platform and as a substitute, the main focus must be on questioning it on the guarantees it made to most of the people however did not implement on floor.

Though the TMC sources didn’t point out the Congress, the goal was obvious.

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Earlier this month, senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had alleged India is witnessing the “death of democracy” and anyone who raises folks’s points and stands towards the onset of dictatorship is “viciously attacked” and put in jail.

The Trinamool Congress stated the federal government promised to rid the nation of black cash however in actuality, it claimed, 99.3 per cent of such cash stashed overseas got here again to the nation with a most of it returning to Gujarat.

It additionally alleged the federal government underneath Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered Rs 2.1 lakh crore value of PSUs and did not deposit the promised Rs 15 lakh in financial institution accounts of the poor.

It has as a substitute squandered away Rs 6.2 trillion in unhealthy loans and Rs 1.22 lakh crore in financial institution frauds.

The get together additionally plans to boost the problem of the bullet prepare mission, elevating questions on land acquisition, and requested how the Railways amassed a debt of Rs 7 lakh crore.

The failure of the federal government underneath the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana additionally can be highlighted by the get together, the sources stated.

The TMC desires to achieve some momentum earlier than the subsequent session of Parliament, which is anticipated in November, and can go all out towards the federal government, they stated.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday directed all her ministers to cease utilizing pilot automobiles with crimson beacon anyplace within the state, besides highways, and suggested them to be very cautious whereas signing any official doc, a senior official right here stated.

The contemporary directives from Banerjee are being seen as an try to rebuild the picture of her authorities which obtained back-to-back jolts following the arrests of senior leaders Partha Chatterjee and Anubrata Mondal.

Addressing the primary assembly of the state cabinet, following the current reshuffle, Banerjee additionally said that her division would repair separate duties for the ministers of state, who until date had “very little responsibilities” to hold out.

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“The chief minister at Thursday’s meeting asked her ministers to stop using pilot cars. Ministers can be escorted by pilot cars with red beacon at times when they are travelling on highways, but not anywhere else in the state,” the bureaucrat informed PTI after the assembly.

“She also advised cabinet ministers to go through any documents thoroughly before signing them,” he stated.

At Thursday’s assembly, Banerjee was learnt to have pulled up state forest minister Jyotipriya Mallick, stating that she had been receiving a number of complaints towards him.

She directed Mallick to keep up a “clean image”.

Partha Chatterjee, who held the business portfolio, was relieved of his ministerial duties and suspended from the TMC following his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) final month in reference to the probe into a college recruitment rip-off.

Notably, Thursday’s was the primary cabinet assembly after Chatterjee’s removing from the ministry.

NEW DELHI: The “democracy-is-dead” chorus is unlikely to be efficient in cornering the Narendra Modi dispensation, Trinamool Congress sources stated on Thursday and added the get together is drawing a listing of 12 guarantees that the BJP made however did not fulfil for its campaign towards the federal government.

Among the dozen guarantees that the Mamata Banerjee-led get together plans to take as much as nook the BJP authorities are the doubling of farmers’ earnings by 2022 and homes for all.

“We have kept it simple. We want to remind the Modi government of the promises it made to the people and also show them how they have failed,” TMC MP Derek O’Brien stated.

TMC sources stated it could be not possible to place the federal government on the backfoot via the “democracy is dead” platform and as a substitute, the main focus must be on questioning it on the guarantees it made to most of the people however did not implement on floor.

Though the TMC sources didn’t point out the Congress, the goal was obvious.

ALSO READ | SSC rip-off: HC extends former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee’s judicial remand by 14 days

Earlier this month, senior Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had alleged India is witnessing the “death of democracy” and anyone who raises folks’s points and stands towards the onset of dictatorship is “viciously attacked” and put in jail.

The Trinamool Congress stated the federal government promised to rid the nation of black cash however in actuality, it claimed, 99.3 per cent of such cash stashed overseas got here again to the nation with a most of it returning to Gujarat.

It additionally alleged the federal government underneath Prime Minister Narendra Modi has offered Rs 2.1 lakh crore value of PSUs and did not deposit the promised Rs 15 lakh in financial institution accounts of the poor.

It has as a substitute squandered away Rs 6.2 trillion in unhealthy loans and Rs 1.22 lakh crore in financial institution frauds.

The get together additionally plans to boost the problem of the bullet prepare mission, elevating questions on land acquisition, and requested how the Railways amassed a debt of Rs 7 lakh crore.

The failure of the federal government underneath the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana additionally can be highlighted by the get together, the sources stated.

The TMC desires to achieve some momentum earlier than the subsequent session of Parliament, which is anticipated in November, and can go all out towards the federal government, they stated.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday directed all her ministers to cease utilizing pilot automobiles with crimson beacon anyplace within the state, besides highways, and suggested them to be very cautious whereas signing any official doc, a senior official right here stated.

The contemporary directives from Banerjee are being seen as an try to rebuild the picture of her authorities which obtained back-to-back jolts following the arrests of senior leaders Partha Chatterjee and Anubrata Mondal.

Addressing the primary assembly of the state cabinet, following the current reshuffle, Banerjee additionally said that her division would repair separate duties for the ministers of state, who until date had “very little responsibilities” to hold out.

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“The chief minister at Thursday’s meeting asked her ministers to stop using pilot cars. Ministers can be escorted by pilot cars with red beacon at times when they are travelling on highways, but not anywhere else in the state,” the bureaucrat informed PTI after the assembly.

“She also advised cabinet ministers to go through any documents thoroughly before signing them,” he stated.

At Thursday’s assembly, Banerjee was learnt to have pulled up state forest minister Jyotipriya Mallick, stating that she had been receiving a number of complaints towards him.

She directed Mallick to keep up a “clean image”.

Partha Chatterjee, who held the business portfolio, was relieved of his ministerial duties and suspended from the TMC following his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) final month in reference to the probe into a college recruitment rip-off.

Notably, Thursday’s was the primary cabinet assembly after Chatterjee’s removing from the ministry.