Harishchandrapur (West Bengal), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah of "spreading lies" on the state government's submission of utilization certificates for central projects and trying to hold up a mirror to the BJP leadership. requested.
Addressing a meeting at Harishchandrapur in Malda North Lok Sabha constituency, Banerjee alleged that 32 departments of the central government have not submitted the utilization certificates of Rs 52,000 spent by them.
"Amit Shah has claimed in a meeting in Memari that we have not sent the utilization certificate of Rs 2.2 crore spent by our government. I challenge him to prove it. This is nothing but a lie. 13 Since we came to power a year ago, we have given every detail of the expenses in the utility certificates, no responsibility can be taken for whatever happened during the CPI(M) rule before 2011."
Banerjee said that although the BJP "vindictively" withheld money for 10 days' work for Bengal, "we cannot let our people suffer. We have raised funds so that 59 lakh people can get 50 days' work." The Center has two weapons - to spread lies and to stop the central funds we receive."
"We will never bow down to the Centre. They had stopped the housing scheme money, but we managed to provide housing funds for 11 lakh houses," he said.
Banerjee accused BJP leaders of only "defaming and threatening Bengal".
She said, "A BJP minister has recently said that he will never allow me to stop NRC in Bengal. I accept the challenge. We will not allow NRC in Bengal. We will demand Uniform Civil Code in Bengal." Will not allow."
Addressing a meeting at Harishchandrapur in Malda North Lok Sabha constituency, Banerjee alleged that 32 departments of the central government have not submitted the utilization certificates of Rs 52,000 spent by them.
"Amit Shah has claimed in a meeting in Memari that we have not sent the utilization certificate of Rs 2.2 crore spent by our government. I challenge him to prove it. This is nothing but a lie. 13 Since we came to power a year ago, we have given every detail of the expenses in the utility certificates, no responsibility can be taken for whatever happened during the CPI(M) rule before 2011."
Banerjee said that although the BJP "vindictively" withheld money for 10 days' work for Bengal, "we cannot let our people suffer. We have raised funds so that 59 lakh people can get 50 days' work." The Center has two weapons - to spread lies and to stop the central funds we receive."
"We will never bow down to the Centre. They had stopped the housing scheme money, but we managed to provide housing funds for 11 lakh houses," he said.
Banerjee accused BJP leaders of only "defaming and threatening Bengal".
She said, "A BJP minister has recently said that he will never allow me to stop NRC in Bengal. I accept the challenge. We will not allow NRC in Bengal. We will demand Uniform Civil Code in Bengal." Will not allow."
