After emptying state treasury on pre-election freebies, Mamata now needs vaccination cash from Modi govt

Reeling beneath intense strain and with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) hovering over her head, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday took to launching yet one more assault towards the Modi authorities and demanded that vaccines be made free for your entire inhabitants of India, which in keeping with her estimates – will price the Centre a ‘meagre’ ₹30,000 crores. According to Banerjee, ₹30,000 crores is “nothing for the central government”. The newest remarks come within the backdrop of Mamata attacking the Centre on the problem of medical oxygen and Covid-19.Interestingly, Mamata Banerjee’s vociferous marketing campaign to make sure free vaccination for all 1.4 billion Indians comes after she efficiently emptied the state treasury by dolling out freebies in her second tenure – significantly after sensing the rise of the BJP in West Bengal. Mindless money transfers with out a correct imaginative and prescient to uplift the folks of West Bengal has now resulted within the state demanding free vaccination for all towards Covid-19. Essentially, Mamata Banerjee now needs the Centre to bail her out.Banerjee on Saturday probed, “Why are they (BJP) not allocating Rs 30,000 crores for vaccines when they are making new Parliament and statues, spending Rs 20,000 crores.” “Where is the PM CARES Fund,” the CM questioned whereas addressing the state Assembly. “Rs 30,000 crore is nothing for the Central government…There should be a universal vaccine program for all throughout the country,” she added. She additionally claimed that the Centre didn’t work within the final six months. “The Centre did not work in the last six months. Ministers came to Bengal every day to capture it,” she stated.The West Bengal authorities has additionally moved the Supreme Court demanding free COVID-19 vaccine for all as a part of the common vaccine drive. The matter is predicted to be heard on May 10.Mamata Banerjee has stalled a number of Central authorities welfare schemes and launched her personal variants of the identical to by some means forestall the folks of West Bengal from growing emotions for the Modi authorities. Evidently, that doesn’t appear to have labored, and now, Banerjee has as soon as once more inherited a state treasury which has been plundered as a result of cash for all her personal schemes going out by way of the state’s income pool.Prior to the elections, the TMC authorities introduced Rs 10,000 to every pupil of Class XII of the government-aided or sponsored colleges and madrassas to buy tabs or smartphones for entry to on-line training in mild of the pandemic. As a matter of reality, Madrassa college students from Class I to VIII get free books, uniforms, baggage and footwear beneath the TMC regime. According to News18, since 2012, imams and muezzins get month-to-month allowances. Imams get Rs 2500 a month, whereas Rs 1000 is given to muezzins who give the aazaan (name to prayer).Read extra: As Amit Shah sends workforce to Bengal, Mamata now hides behind Covid and Oxygen to save lots of herselfNow that the state has been made to face a dismal fiscal situation, Banerjee is asking the Centre to vaccinate all folks freed from price. TFI had reported on Saturday how, so as to divert consideration from the mass violence in West Bengal towards BJP employees and supporters, Mamata Banerjee had shot a letter to PM Narendra Modi saying with the surge in Covid circumstances, Bengal’s oxygen requirement goes up and at such a time, the Centre is diverting its oxygen provide to different states. In her letter to the Prime Minister, Banerjee stated that Bengal’s consumption of medical oxygen has gone up from 470 MT to 550 MT per day over the previous week.Mamata Banerjee has earned nationwide outrage for her occasion’s violent actions after it received a landslide victory final Sunday. Evidently, she is just not losing a single wakeful second and is attacking the Centre senselessly.