SHAH LISTS DOLES BJP WILL ROLL OUT IN WEST BENGAL, MAMATA HITS BACK

KOLKATA: Starting from implementing the 7th pay commission, which would benefit more than a million state government employees, to providing an annual subsidy of ₹6000 to around 400,000 fishermen, Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday listed out a series of doles which he claimed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would implement if it is voted to power in the coming elections in West Bengal.

While on one hand Shah showered poll promises ahead of the crucial assembly elections, on the other he mounted attack on the ruling Trinamool Congress.

The Union home minister attacked TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, who is chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew, alleging that the Centre had sent money to the state after Cyclone Amphan but Tmc-backed goons had eaten away everything.

The TMC chief, who was addressing a rally in the same district around the same time, hit out at the Bjp-led Centre over the price rise and disinvestment policies.

“You never tall about price rise. You just talk about Didi and Bhatija (nephew). First fight the bhatija then you can fight Didi. I challenge Shah to contest against bhatija. Hiding your corrupt son and pointing fingers at others won’t do. Your son is my bhatija. How did he become the BCCI secretary and amassed wealth?” said Banerjee.

Shah also attacked Mamata Banerjee and said that the TMC supremo gets angry and feels insulted whenever she hears the slogan “Jai Shri Ram”, and urged the crowd to chant the slogan so loudly that Banerjee could hear it while sitting in Kolkata.