Incoming Governor is BJP’s parrot, says Mamata

Continuing her sit-in protestation astatine Esplanade successful Kolkata implicit the deletion of names successful the last electoral rotation aft the peculiar intensive revision workout carried retired by the Election Commission (EC), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Saturday paraded connected signifier radical whose names person been removed.

“If determination is democracy, wherefore are you removing names of genuine voters? If you effort to region genuine voters from the electoral rolls, we volition overthrow your authorities successful Delhi,” she said, targeting the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and EC. She urged the judiciary to see the sanction of voters whose names person been removed from rolls.

Referring to Tamil Nadu Governor R.N. Ravi, who volition presume the work of Governor of West Bengal, she described him arsenic BJP’s parrot. “The idiosyncratic who is coming to Bengal now, I heard helium had to look galore comments from the Supreme Court. He is conscionable a parrot of the BJP. But remember, Bengal is simply a antithetic place. You whitethorn person done immoderate you wanted successful Tamil Nadu, but present you are not letting anyone not decorativeness their term,” she said.

Ms. Banerjee besides touched connected the contented of the abrupt resignation of West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose. “Fifteen days earlier elections, you made Ananda Bose endure the destiny of [former Vice-President Jagdeep] Dhankhar,” she said, claiming that Mr. Bose was “threatened”.

Benefit transfer

The Chief Minister besides made an announcement that the entitlement of Banglar Yuva Sathi scheme, which was expected to beryllium credited successful the relationship of beneficiaries from April, volition beryllium credited connected Saturday. Under the strategy announced connected February 5, unemployed jobseekers aged 21-40 who person passed Class X volition person ₹1,500 per period to assistance them determination towards a self-reliant future. More than 80 lakh younker person applied for the entitlement.