Trinamool Congress To Ship 50 Lakh Letters To Centre Over Rural Jobs Scheme MNREGA Dues To West Bengal
Trinamool Congress can even ship letters to Union Panchayati Raj Minister Giriraj Singh.
Kolkata:
The Trinamool Congress will ship greater than 50 lakh letters from individuals denied MGNREGA advantages in West Bengal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi forward of the social gathering’s much-touted protests in New Delhi subsequent month in opposition to the alleged withholding of funds by the Centre.
The social gathering has accused the BJP-led NDA authorities of withholding Rs 15,000 crore of dues to Bengal underneath the Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Rural Employment Assure Act (MGNREGA) and Gramin Awas Yojana.
The social gathering can even ship letters to Union Panchayati Raj Minister Giriraj Singh.
“West Bengal stands united in opposition to the central authorities’s injustice, decided to say what’s rightfully ours. Folks’s energy reigns supreme in democracy,” TMC’s nationwide common secretary Abhishek Banerjee stated on X, previously Twitter.
Folks of Bengal are elevating their voice in opposition to “injustice”, and people adversely impacted have written letters to the PM, searching for their rightful dues”, the social gathering stated on the microblogging web site.
“We now have individuals, who’re but to get their dues even after working underneath the MGNREGA, to put in writing these letters. Until now, now we have collected greater than 50 lakh letters. They’ve all sought the discharge of dues to Bengal underneath the agricultural jobs scheme. We’re sending these letters to the places of work of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Minister Giriraj Singh,” a senior TMC chief stated.
Abhishek Banerjee, the social gathering’s nationwide common secretary, and TMC MPs, MLAs and leaders from the districts can pay their respects to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat within the nationwide capital on October 2 on his delivery anniversary.
Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, who was purported to attend the programme in New Delhi, may not go there as she was suggested ten days of relaxation by docs after she suffered an harm on her left knee throughout a current journey to Spain and Dubai.
A TMC delegation will meet Singh on October 3 and place earlier than him the difficulty of “non-release of dues” underneath the MGNREGA, Bengal minister Chandrima Bhattacharya had stated on September 23.
The TMC had deliberate to stage protests in New Delhi for dues underneath the agricultural jobs scheme to Bengal.
The ruling social gathering within the state had claimed that regardless of a number of requests to the Delhi Police, it was denied permission to carry demonstrations within the nationwide capital.
The TMC had, on August 30, stated that it was denied permission to carry demonstrations in New Delhi because the BJP-led Union authorities wished to “scuttle the voice of Bengal”, a cost dubbed as “baseless” by the saffron camp.
Through the TMC’s Martyrs’ Day rally on July 21, Abhishek Banerjee had introduced that the social gathering would launch a large protest in Delhi on Gandhi Jayanti on October 2 in opposition to the alleged blocking of funds by the central authorities for Bengal underneath the MGNREGA and different schemes.
The chief minister held a two-day sit-in in March this yr in opposition to the Centre’s alleged transfer of “not releasing funds” to the state for MGNREGA and different welfare schemes.
The Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Rural Employment Assure Act 2005 goals to reinforce the livelihood safety of households in rural areas by offering no less than 100 days of assured wage employment in a monetary yr.
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