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Union Home Minister Amit Shah connected Monday (March 2, 2026) promised West Bengal authorities employees that the Seventh Pay Commission would beryllium implemented successful the State if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was voted to powerfulness successful the coming Assembly election.
Mr. Shah, who flagged disconnected his party’s Parivartan Yatra (Rally for change) from Magrahat successful South 24 Parganas, said the Seventh Pay Commission would beryllium implemented wrong 45 days of the BJP coming to power. “If each of you signifier a authorities of the West Bengal nether the BJP, we volition commencement paying salaries arsenic per the Seventh Pay Commission wrong conscionable 45 days,” helium said.
The remark assumes value arsenic the authorities employees are embroiled successful a agelong ineligible conflict with the State authorities implicit the outgo of Dearness Allowance (DA). Despite a Supreme Court bid directing the State authorities to wage 25% of the outstanding DA to its employees by March 31, the Mamata Banerjee authorities has not released the DA arrears.
Speaking astatine the nationalist gathering astatine Mathurapur, the Union Home Minister said that the younker of the State had suffered owed to the corruption of the Trinamool Congress authorities successful providing jobs. He promised that aft the BJP authorities is formed, the younker would beryllium fixed a five-year relaxation successful the precocious property bounds for jobs.
Mr. Shah said the nonsubjective of the yatra was not simply to region the Chief Minister, but to escaped the State from infiltration, corruption, and syndicate raj. “If you ballot for the TMC again, Bhaipo (nephew) volition regularisation here, not Mamata didi,” the Home Minister said.
Dynasty politics
Targeting the Trinamool Congress authorities implicit dynasty politics, Mr. Shah said the aim of “Mamata Banerjee is not the payment of the radical of Bengal. Instead of the payment of the radical of Bengal, she wants to bash bully to Abhishek Banerjee”.
“She wants to marque Abhishek Banerjee the Chief Minister,” helium said. Mr. Shah said the younker of West Bengal could not get abstraction successful a enactment similar the Trinamool Congress and the “BJP is the lone enactment that does not bash authorities for the family”.
Referring to the scams that person surfaced during the 15 years of the Trinamool Congress government, the Union Home Minister touched upon the information of Rajeev Kumar, the erstwhile Director-General of West Bengal Police, to the Rajya Sabha. Mr. Shah said the DGP who had helped the Trinamool Congress screen up respective scams had present been nominated by the enactment to the Rajya Sabha.
Mr. Shah said that portion Ms. Banerjee had had a alteration of bosom and was constructing temples successful the State, a “Babri Masjid” was besides being constructed successful the State nether her ticker to appease a ballot bank. He said the Babri Masjid was a effect of a conspiracy betwixt Ms. Banerjee and Humayun Kabir, the suspended Trinamool legislator who has present floated a caller party.
Rajnath, Shivraj emblem disconnected rallies
Several different legs of the Parivartan Yatra were flagged disconnected from antithetic corners of the State. Addressing a rally astatine Amta successful Howrah district, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh recalled the publication of Syama Prasad Mookerjee and said Bengal was the onshore of fighters and revolutionaries and was acceptable for change.
Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, on with Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition successful West Bengal Assembly, flagged disconnected a yatra from Sandeshkhali successful North 24 Parganas.
The BJP enactment has started its run for the West Bengal Assembly predetermination by flagging disconnected respective Parivartan Yatras crossed the State. Prime Minister Narendra Modi volition code a nationalist gathering astatine the Brigade Parade Grounds successful Kolkata aft the culmination of these yatras.
