Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal on Tuesday accused the central government of using central agencies to destroy and demolish the federal nature and associated structures in the country. Banerjee sought to know where is the money of Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations (PM CARES) fund. She said that her government in Kolkata, would not work as per whims and fancies of the BJP-led regime at the Centre.

Ms Banerjee asked rhetorically where all the money has gone and why no audit was done. She came down hard on the GOI by asking what the centre has given to states to counter the Covid19 pandemic.

Charging the Centre with targeting West Bengal as elections are approaching in the state in 2021, the Trinamool Congress supremo claimed that law and order situation is better in the state than many other states of the country. She said, “The Centre is using agencies to bulldoze and threaten us. We are not afraid of them. They (BJP) are not a political party but garbage of lies.”

Elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly are due in April-May next year.

With regards to the on-going farmers’ protest in north India, she claimed that no other political party supported the BJP on the issue of farm laws but the saffron party is adamant on bulldozing the protest.

Recently, with respect to the upcoming state polls, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) faction’s Roshan Giri had said that they will back chief minister Mamata Banerjee who he said unlike the faction’s former ally Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) “keeps her promises.”

Giri, general secretary of the faction headed by Bimal Gurung, alleged that the BJP cheated their faction and did not live up to any of its promises during their association from 2009 to 2020. He affirmed that the BJP would be defeated in the state polls next year.

The author is a student member of amity centre of happiness