Trinamool Congress basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee has alleged that his get together leaders had been “mistreated” in the course of the protest at Rajghat in New Delhi on Monday demanding the discharge of MGNREGA and housing scheme funds to the West Bengal authorities. He shared a video of a scuffle between the TMC leaders and the police in the course of the protest on X (previously Twitter) and stated the incident is “deeply distressing and intriguing” for it to be occurring on the day of Gandhi Jayanthi.
Abhishek Banerjee shared a video of a scuffle between the TMC leaders and the police in the course of the protest on Monday(X/@abhishekaitc)
“Today’s events at Rajghat are deeply distressing and infuriating. Our lawmakers had to endure mistreatment under the oppressive regime of the BJP’s ZAMINDAR GOVERNMENT that too on #GandhiJayanti , a day dedicated to Gandhiji’s principles of PEACE, NON VIOLENCE AND SWARAJ,” Banerjee wrote in his tweet.
He additional stated that their protest was solely “embracing the path of satyagraha”.
Banerjee stated, “Their only crime was embracing the path of satyagraha inspired by the revered Mahatma Gandhi, in their endeavour to secure WB’s rightful dues. I implore their MASTERS to heed this message: The days of your ZAMINDARI REIGN ARE NUMBERED and the people will emerge victorious!”
In the video shared by the TMC MP, a celebration member was being pushed by two police personnel, and in one other video, a girl protester was seen having a bodily altercation with the police in the course of the protest on the Rajghat, a memorial devoted to Mahatma Gandhi.
Earlier, the Delhi Police stated the TMC leaders had been requested to not sit on the Samadhi Sthal – because the day marks the start anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, and hundreds of individuals had been visiting the realm, news company ANI reported. The police additional stated the TMC leaders weren’t listening to the repeated requests and that it affected the general public entry to go to the realm.
Abhishek Banerjee, who has been main the get together’s protest towards the central authorities, earlier stated that the police “lathi-charged women protesters” and “turned the protest violent”.
“The way they misbehaved and manhandled it clearly shows that BJP is scared…If the people feel that those who we elected to power have stopped the funds and there is a need to change the government, no one can stop that from happening,” he stated.
TMC protest at Rajghat
The TMC initiated a ‘mega protest’ within the nationwide capital towards the central authorities’s suspension of MGNREGA funds to the state authorities. Abhishek Banerjee criticised Union minister Anurag Thakur, saying, “Anurag Thakur says that they gave ₹2 lakh crore. But the question is, how much amount have they taken from West Bengal? They have been in power for nine years, and they have taken at least ₹5-7 lakh crore from West Bengal. You have taken money from the state and are keeping it deprived of rights.”
Banerjee determined to stage this protest throughout a rally in West Bengal, the place he witnessed the numerous antagonistic results on the state’s residents ensuing from the central authorities’s withholding of funds.
The Bengal BJP, accused the TMC of economic mismanagement by producing a couple of crore fraudulent job playing cards. Leader of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari within the Bengal meeting, labelled it because the “biggest scam after independence”.
The Union minister for rural growth Giriraj Singh, rejected the TMC’s claims, saying that the central authorities had by no means halted funds in any program and accused the West Bengal authorities of “looting the poor” beneath the guise of MGNREGA.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com
