West Bengal Chief Minister & TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched a blistering attack on the BJP which is its main opposition in the upcoming state Assembly elections.
Hitting out at the saffron party for criticizing her government for presenting a ‘populist’ state budget on February 5, the Trinamool Congress supremo said that ‘some are saying that the state budget is an advertisement ahead of polls, even if it is an advertisement, what is the problem’.
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She also slammed the BJP for claiming that the Trinamool regime will lose the West Bengal elections. While addressing the state Assembly, Banerjee exuded confidence of winning the assembly elections for a consecutive third term.
The BJP, Left and the Congress boycotted the Budget session in the state Assembly. The saffron party MLAs created a ruckus in the Assembly over TMC government’s decision not to invite Governor Jagdeep Dhankar on the first day of the session.
Various TMC leaders in West Bengal, including many from the intelligentsia had castigated the BJP for using the platform of Netaji’s Birthday celebration in Kolkata to raise Jai Shri Ram slogans, with support coming even from Congress leaders.
The TMC government in its Budget 2021 outlined that 500 para-teachers will be employed for 100 new Nepali, Hindi and Urdu schools. While presenting the state’s budget statement, Banerjee had said that all kinds of road tax will be lifted from January 21 to June 21 and the free ration system will continue till June 21.
The TMC regime will also introduce ‘Netaji battalion’ in Kolkata Police. The Budget also said that the ‘Duare Sarkar‘ initiative started by Banerjee’s dispensation will take place twice a year. Tourism industries will receive loans between Rs 50 thousand to Rs 1 lakh.
