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Raiganj Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Krishna Kalyani received backlash from the BJP connected Tuesday for his caller remarks astatine a nationalist meeting, claiming that “each ballot costs ₹60,000”.
Earlier successful the day, the BJP had shared the video connected societal media 2 days aft the Raiganj MLA was seen making the remark.
“Do you cognize however overmuch each of your votes costs? Minimum ₹60,000. Every month, each of you gets ₹1,000 from the Lakshmir Bhandar scheme which amounts to ₹60,000 successful 5 years. So, bash not ballot for idiosyncratic if they connection thing little than ₹60,000,” Mr. Kalyani said portion addressing a nationalist gathering successful Raiganj connected Sunday.
Meanwhile, Ms. Banerjee, addressing a gathering successful Cooch Behar connected Tuesday, said, “I bash not bargain votes with wealth similar the BJP, I bargain votes with love.”
Mr. Kalyani was a BJP MLA during the 2021 West Bengal Assembly poll. However, helium switched to TMC 3 days earlier the bypolls successful the State successful October 2021.
Leader of the Opposition successful the Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, criticised Mr. Kalyani’s code aft sharing the video connected his societal media handle. The LoP termed the TMC MLA a “turncoat”, citing the latter’s past of switching governmental parties.
“Today, portion trying to jab the BJP from the gathering successful Cooch Behar, she [Mamata Banerjee] said, ‘I don’t bargain votes arsenic the BJP does’. But, her ain party’s turncoat MLA Krishna Kalyani has dismissed this assertion of hers,” Mr. Adhikari wrote.
Criticising the differences successful the comments the TMC leaders made, Mr. Adhikari said that the radical of West Bengal volition cull the TMC’s program to “buy votes successful speech for authorities grants”.
Taking a excavation astatine the ruling TMC, helium said the wealth for specified schemes launched by Ms. Banerjee came from taxpayers’ money, and not from the pockets of the politicians.
