Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on Trinamool Congress and said that it does not affect West Bengal government when people are struggling or suffering and the “entire country is discussing what TMC leaders did to the Dalit and Adivasi women of Sandeshkhali”.
Addressing a rally in Siliguri during his third visit to West Bengal in less than a month, Modi said, “It does not affect TMC when you are struggling or suffering. The entire country is discussing what TMC leaders did to the Dalit and Adivasi women of Sandeshkhali. Atrocities against women and to loot the hard-earned money of the poor this is what TMC’s ‘tolabaz’ do.
Further, hitting out at the TMC over release of MGNREGA wages (issue on which the Mamata Banerjee-led government has been protesting for a long time), PM Modi said that Centre sends the money from Delhi but TMC government looted it.
Exposing the malafide pratices of the TMC government, PM Modi said, “TMC government is looting you at every step. Modi sends the money for MNREGA wages from Delhi but the TMC government here has looted you at every step. To benefit the TMC’s ‘tolabaz’, 25 lakh fake job cards were created and given to the people. If Modi sends money to the poor’s houses, then the TMC government gives your money to the people chosen by ‘tolabaz’.”
The Prime Minister said that everyone in the country is able to see the problems in West Bengal but the irony is that, “First the left did not listen to you and then the TMC also ignored you. They were busy looting the land of the poor”.