Dilip Ghosh. file | Photo Credit: PTI
The opposition BJP and the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal entered the second round of a war of words on January 7 over a new outreach programme. didir protective cover‘, announced TMC president Mamata Banerjee.
Around 3.5 lakh party workers will visit around two crore houses covering the state’s 10 crore population over the next two months to highlight the welfare schemes launched by the Mamata Banerjee government.
Party workers will be called CM’s ambassadors,’ didir messenger, People address Ms. Banerjee as ‘. Elder sister‘(elder sister).
Taking a dig at the state’s campaign ahead of the panchayat polls, BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh told reporters, “TMC leaders will need this. protective sheild (Suraksha Kavach) As their chairperson she has to explain her misdeeds of depriving the people and swindling the money of central projects.
“Delhi’s dots Now everywhere… reaching BDO offices and banks in different parts of the state. TMC leaders are trembling in fear of CBI raids and central teams roaming everywhere in the state to find out how funds under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana were utilised.” Central teams are currently in West Bengal To inquire into allegations of irregularities in the allotment of houses under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY).
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Leader of the Opposition Shubhendu Adhikari tweeted in support of Mr Ghosh, “Verification of eligible beneficiaries of old age and widow pension schemes under the National Social Assistance Program is underway in West Bengal. Fake ‘Didir Doot’ will mislead lakhs of beneficiaries of the soon to be finalized National Pension Scheme by terming it as Didi’s gift.
“The miscreants will most likely tell these people who went to ‘duare sarkar’ camps and applied for old age and widow pension that the West Bengal government has selected them because they visited the camps and applied accordingly. Fact It is that their patron is the central government. Will be hidden.”
, Duare SarkarThe initiative is about providing doorstep delivery of various government schemes. Responding to the mockery, TMC Rajya Sabha MP Shantanu Sen claimed that the people of the state are with TMC president Mamata Banerjee, who has initiated several social welfare projects and outreach programs to help the masses.
“This is making the BJP jealous as they have become unsettled about the outreach drive launched by the TMC-run government,” he said. They are sure of their imminent defeat in the panchayat polls and hence are making such comments which have no meaning.” TMC will start campaigning from January 11.
TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee had said on January 2, “Party workers will reach out to people across the state and ensure that everyone can take advantage of the state government’s welfare schemes.”