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  • Supporting GST was our biggest mistake: Mamata Banerjee

    Supporting GST was our biggest mistake: Mamata Banerjee

    Kolkata (IANS) | Trinamool Congress National President and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that the Trinamool Congress’s biggest mistake was to support the central government to implement the Goods and Services Tax (GSR). Inaugurating the rural-road network at Singur in Hooghly district, he said- After the implementation of GST, the central government is taking all the money from the state without releasing the state’s share on this count. Our biggest mistake was to support the central government in implementing GST. We thought that this would benefit the state. But now the central government has stopped releasing all funds under various centrally sponsored schemes from MNREGA to PMAY.

    Banerjee said that from Wednesday she is going to protest in front of the BR Ambedkar statue on Red Road in Kolkata which will continue till 7 pm on Thursday. He claimed – I was on hunger strike for 14 days in Singur demanding return of land to reluctant farmers. Later, after coming to power, we returned that land to the farmers of Singur. The farmers of Singur gave full support to our movement on this issue.

    Banerjee also said that a rural road network of 9,000 km would be set up under the state’s rural road development plans, apart from upgrading 12,000 km of existing rural roads. He also claimed that his government has set a target to complete the project before the upcoming monsoon.

    He said, Singur has always been close to my heart and hence I decided to start this program from here.

    –IANS

  • By-election effect: Mamta removed the minority affairs minister, took charge herself

    By-election effect: Mamta removed the minority affairs minister, took charge herself

    Kolkata (IANS) | The recent by-election defeat in the Sagardighi assembly constituency in Murshidabad district signaled the slippage of dedicated vote banks in the minority-dominated erstwhile Trinamool Congress bastion and prompted Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to replace the minister in charge of minority affairs and madrassa education and take charge herself. inspired. The decision to remove Ghulam Rabbani from the post of minority affairs minister was announced on Monday, while it also said that the affairs of the department would now be under the purview of the chief minister. Rabbani has been transferred to the Horticulture Department.

    Chandranath Sinha, Minister of State in charge of MSME and Textiles, has been given the additional charge of Minister of State for Minority Affairs and Madrassa Education. In the Sagardighi bypoll, Left Front-backed Congress candidate Byron Biswas defeated Trinamool’s Debashish Banerjee by a margin of 22,980 votes. The result came as a blow to the Trinamool, as Sagardighi—a minority-dominated constituency—was a traditional bastion of the ruling party, where it had won with a large margin since 2011.

    Recently, Trinamool had also reshuffled the minority cell of the party. Now the Chief Minister himself taking charge of the Minority Affairs and Madrassa Education Department becomes important in the emerging political situation of West Bengal.

    –IANS