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Criticising the Union government over the hike in commercial LPG prices, TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee has claimed that while the Mamata Banerjee administration was providing relief to people, the Narendra Modi-led Centre was “taking from them.”
According to PTI, Addressing an election rally in the town near the Bangladesh border, the TMC MP alleged that rising prices of vegetables and essentials had put people under severe hardship.
“While on the one hand Modi is taking from the people, on the other hand Mamata Banerjee is giving,” Banerjee said.
Commercial LPG rates were raised by Rs 195.50 per cylinder, mirroring the surge in global oil prices linked to the widening West Asia conflict.
He claimed that despite the Centre not releasing funds for implementing various central welfare schemes, the Mamata Banerjee dispensation was using its own resources to provide support for housing, job-guarantee programmes, roads, and water supply projects.
“The BJP MLAs who won from several constituencies in north Bengal in 2021 did nothing for the local people,” he alleged.
The opposition in this region will not be seen even with binoculars after the Assembly polls, he added.
“I hear that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will come to Cooch Behar on April 5. I challenge him to release a white paper detailing whether even one person from the district received funds under the Centre’s Awas Yojana,” he said.
