Lok Sabha polls: Mamata says EC chalked out 7-phase elections to help Modi use nation’s resources for campaign

Polls person been scheduled from April 19 to June 1 truthful that Modi and his furniture colleagues tin question connected peculiar planes crossed the state earlier each signifier to "overwhelm the Opposition", said Mamata Banerjee portion speaking astatine a nationalist gathering astatine Gajol successful Malda district.

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"On earlier occasions, elections utilized to beryllium implicit by May but this year, it has been extended till June 1 to alteration Modi to sojourn assorted places connected subject planes, portion we are made to put for our ain transport, including helicopters, which are besides being booked by BJP leaders truthful that we get small space," she alleged.

"People are greatly inconvenienced by the scorching vigor but Modi is unperturbed arsenic they (BJP leaders) are campaigning successful VVIP comfortableness with each facilities astatine hand," the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo besides said. 

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She besides alleged that though the Union assembly of ministers led by Narendra Modi is simply a caretaker furniture aft the announcement of elections and the EC is successful complaint of moving the administrative machinery, the canvass assemblage is "toeing the enactment dictated by Modi and his enactment colleagues".

Raising the contented of MGNREGA funds’ release, Mamata Banerjee said that contempt being elected from West Bengal successful 2019 nary of the BJP and Congress MPs took up the state's origin regarding the merchandise of MGNREGA funds by the Centre oregon gathering houses for the mediocre nether PM Awas Yojana.

"On the different hand, our (TMC) MPs were manhandled and arrested erstwhile they went to Delhi successful November past twelvemonth to request the merchandise of MGNREGA funds," she added.

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Published: 20 Apr 2024, 08:27 PM IST