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The Trinamool Congress criticised the Bharatiya Janta Party government’s Annapurna Bhandar scheme successful West Bengal, connected relationship of the tedious form-filling process. The Congress State president besides wrote to Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari to marque the process simpler.
“Assurances earlier the vote; lone memories aft the votes,” TMC wide caput Abhishek Banerjee wrote connected his societal media on Friday (May 29, 2026), taking a excavation astatine the form. He besides shared an alleged mock-up signifier that was shared by the BJP earlier the elections which was lone fractional a page, and also shared photos of the 11-page signifier precocious published by the caller government.
The Annapurna Bhandar is a societal information strategy wherever women of the State volition get a nonstop currency transportation of ₹3,000 to their banks each month. The erstwhile TMC authorities had launched the Lakshmir Bhandar scheme successful 2021 and reached astir 2.4 crore women crossed the State. The TMC authorities paid ₹1,500 per woman, and the BJP made a canvass committedness to treble the dolls erstwhile they came to power.
The Annapurna Bhandar scheme signifier asks for details similar Citizenship (Amendment) Act status, whether names were deleted nether the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process, societal status of people, vaccination presumption of children, number of literate and illiterate household members, slope relationship details of household members, presumption of wellness insurance, total onshore holding of family, etc.
Taking a excavation astatine this, TMC MLA Kunal Ghosh asked wherefore societal payment schemes are becoming conditional nether the BJP. “So the new @BJP4Bengal Minister’s logic is simple: If you didn’t take the vaccine provided by the Government of India, don’t bother seeking benefits from Government of India payment schemes!!!” he wrote connected his societal media.
Mr Ghosh besides raised questions astir wherefore women have to give details of their full household erstwhile the currency transportation payment is solely for women.
Meanwhile, netizens on social media have been making memes and sarcastic videos connected the 11-page agelong signifier issued by the State authorities for the Annapurna Bhandar scheme.
“One oregon 2 pages is inactive okay. How volition we capable up specified a immense form? We are not that educated? This wealth was expected to beryllium mine, wherefore bash I request to adhd my husband’s relationship details?” a pistillate asked.
The strategy is acceptable to beryllium rolled retired from June 1, but the uncertainty implicit the form-filling process has near galore successful doubt.
“We tin supply Aadhaar and elector cards, but the number of documents they are asking is not imaginable for illiterate people similar us to provide. We person decided to just not capable out the form,” different pistillate who registered nether the Lakshmir Bhandar scheme said.
Meanwhile, Congress State president Subhankar Sarkar wrote to the West Bengal CM stating that the agelong signifier filling up process was causing occupation among people. “I impulse you to instrumentality contiguous and indispensable steps from the State government’s broadside to simplify the signifier issued for Annapurna Bhandar,” Mr Sarkar’s letter said connected Friday (May 29, 2026).
