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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee connected Tuesday (October 14, 2025) accused immoderate radical of indulging successful authorities successful the sanction of flood alleviation successful North Bengal. The Chief Minister, who was touring flood-affected areas, said these radical were “trying to bring authorities into Dhupguri and Maynaguri ( areas affected by floods)” and were demoralising the locals.
Ms. Banerjee was targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) enactment successful the authorities and said that they were visiting the flood affected areas lone for “photo shoots”.
“Instead of helping, you present expansive speeches funded by the BJP, you bash photoshoots for a time and past disappear. On the different hand, we volition rebuild the houses and the bridges, wide the roads aft landslides, supply alleviation to the radical and tally assemblage kitchens. The Centre has nary relation successful immoderate of this...” the Chief Minister said.
The remark by the Trinamool Congress chairperson comes successful the backdrop of an onslaught connected BJP MP Khagen Murmu and MLA Sankar Ghosh connected October 6 erstwhile they were visiting Nagrakata successful North Bengal to conscionable radical affected by the floods. The onslaught connected the BJP leaders by locals drew wide disapproval and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had criticised the Trinamool Congress authorities for failing to supply information to Opposition leaders.
After the floods successful North Bengal connected October 5, which claimed implicit 30 lives, the Chief Minister had visited the country twice. On Tuesday, Ms. Banerjee visited landslide affected areas successful Mirik and met with the household members of those who mislaid lives successful the caller landslides. Later successful the day, the Chief Minister interacted with the families affected by the caller catastrophe astatine a campy successful Mirik Bazar
“The Hon’ble Chief Minister besides visited the Sukhiapokhri, wherever she interacted with affected families and handed implicit cheques of ₹5 lakh each to the families of the 4 deceased victims and distributed 10 occupation assignment letters for Special Home Guard posts to their next-of-kin of deceased. She distributed alleviation materials,” a property connection by the West Bengal authorities said.
The connection besides added that the Chief Minister reiterated that each damaged houses volition beryllium reconstructed with fiscal assistance of ₹1.2 lakh per house.
Meanwhile, the Government of West Bengal has appealed to the radical to lend to the West Bengal State Disaster Management Authority (WBSDMA) Fund to enactment contiguous rescue, alleviation and semipermanent rehabilitation efforts for the affected communities.
Trinamool Congress wide caput and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee took to societal media and informed that helium has contributed ₹1 lakh to the fund.
“In these investigating times, each enactment of kindness matters. I entreaty to each to travel guardant and generously lend to basal beside those who person mislaid truthful overmuch successful this man-made tragedy,” Mr. Banerjee said.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has described the floods arsenic “man made” claiming that waters from rivers of Bhutan and Sikkim person flooded North Bengal. On Monday, she besides said that Bhutan should supply compensation to West Bengal for the disaster.
