Kolkata, Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday wrote to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman expressing apprehension that development and welfare funds for the people of West Bengal could be diverted and mismanaged to "delay" the impending financial crisis. .

Adhikari also met the Union Minister in Delhi and shared on Tried as." Delay the upcoming financial meltdown in the state."

The leader of opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, in his letter to Sitharaman, cited alleged communications from the state finance department to district magistrates. The communication reportedly requested bank account details, including closing balances, from offices at all levels of the state government, in order to "enhance the management of the state's financial resources".

The official warned that following a decline in industrialization, "West Bengal is on the verge of financial collapse amid a pandemic-induced job crisis."

He informed Sitharaman, "The fear now is that development and welfare funds for the people may be either unethically diverted, delayed, mismanaged or misused, leading to The upcoming financial meltdown in the state can be somehow delayed."

Highlighting central funds like PMGSY, MDM (PM Nutrition), ICDS and MSDP (for minority development), he called on the need for "rigorous financial monitoring and scrutiny in public interest" to prevent state governments from misusing funds. Insisted.